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ONLINE ONLY The Library Book Club at Downtown Bend

Event Type: Adult Program
Age Group(s): Adult
Date: 6/12/2020
Start Time: 12:00 PM
End Time: 1:00 PM
Description:
 Discuss "French Exit" by Patrick DeWitt via Zoom. Join us online by copy and pasting the following link: https://zoom.us/j/157999301

Access the eBook and audiobook via Overdrive/Libby using the link below, or via the Libby app on your mobile device. Audiobook is also available via Hoopla with no wait.

From the Publisher: "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"
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Library: Downtown Bend Public Library
Contact: Rya Fennewald
Contact Number: 541-617-7092
Presenter: Rya Fennewald
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