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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: French exit
    sub title: a tragedy of manners
  name:
    name part: deWitt, Patrick
    name part: 1975-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: novel
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 244 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: 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 Price's aging cat, Small Frank, who Frances believes houses the spirit of her late husband, an infamously immoral litigator and world-class cad whose gruesome tabloid death rendered Frances and Malcolm social outcasts. Putting penury and pariahdom behind them, the family decides to cut their losses and head for the exit. One ocean voyage later, the curious trio land in their beloved Paris, the City of Light serving as a backdrop not for love or romance, but self destruction and economical ruin, to riotous effect. A number of singular characters serve to round out the cast, a bashful private investigator, an aimless psychic proposing a seance, a doctor who makes house calls with his wine merchant in tow and the inimitable Mme. Reynard, aggressive houseguest and dementedly friendly American expat. Brimming with pathos and wit, French Exit is a one-of-a-kind 'tragedy of manners,' a riotous send-up of high society, as well as a moving mother/son caper which only Patrick deWitt could conceive and execute.
  note: Patrick deWitt.
  subject:
    topic: Widows
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Adult children living with parents
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Scandals
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Bankruptcy
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: Paris (France)
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: FICTION
    topic: Literary
  subject:
    topic: FICTION
    topic: Family Life
  subject:
    topic: FICTION
    topic: Humorous
  classification: PS3604.E923 F74 2018
  classification: 813/.6
  identifier: 9780062846921
  identifier: 0062846922
  identifier: 9780062846938
  identifier: 0062846930
  identifier: 2017053127
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 171127
    record change date: 20190122115628.0
    record identifier: in00004024297