Patrick deWitt
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
When a frontier baron known as the Commodore orders Charlie and Eli Sisters, his hired gunslingers, to track down and kill a prospector named Herman Kermit Warm, the brothers journey from Oregon to San Francisco, and eventually to Warm's claim in the Sierra foothills, running into a witch, a bear, a dead Indian, a parlor of drunken floozies, and a gang of murderous fur trappers.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"From bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial disintegration. Frances Price - tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature - is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there's the...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, Lucy is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for producing brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts employment assisting the Majordomo of the remote, foreboding Castle Von Aux. While tending to his new post as Undermajordomo, Lucy soon discovers the place harbors many dark secrets, not least of which is the whereabouts...
4) French exit
Publisher
Columbia (Canada)
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
Description
Sixty-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price had a plan--to die before the money ran out. But things didn't go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for twelve years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris. She is accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank, who may or may...
5) Terri
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Life is in session in the year's biggest Sundance hit. Social outcast Terri is stuck caring for his uncle and trying to survive high school. He feels disconnected until his wildly unconventional Vice Principal inspires him to reach out. Now with the help of beautiful misfit Heather, Terri discovers he doesn't have to fit in to belong.