From the bestselling, Man Booker–short-listed author of The Sisters Brothers comes a brilliant and boisterous novel that reimagines the folk tale
A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners, Undermajordomo Minor is Patrick deWitt's long-awaited follow-up to the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Sisters Brothers.
Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury.… (more)
The story is surprisingly straightforward and unadorned, though the prose oozes with that odd DeWitt charm that makes it compelling.
My take on Patrick deWitt is that he is a thrilling writer likely to last past our own soon-to-be-bygone time.
One of deWitt’s great strengths is to breathe life into characters with just a few quick strokes; yet in a story with dozens of characters, only a few are onstage long enough to gain much emotional weight.
Publisher: Ecco (September 15, 2015)
Format: EPUB
Protection: DRM
Language: English