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Cutting a terrifying path from a Pennsylvania farm to the Europe of the 1930s, Banning Jainlight becomes the private pornographer of the world's most evil man. In a Vienna window, he glimpses the face of a lost erotic dream, and from there travels to the Twentieth Century's darkest corner to confront its shocked and secret conscience.

I read it three times.

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

Finishing up a biography on Bill Watterson by Nevin Martell. Man does it bring back memories.

Finishing up a biography on Bill Watterson by Nevin Martell. Man does it bring back memories.

Finishing up a biography on Bill Watterson by Nevin Martell. Man does it bring back memories.

How is it? My daughter is having a painting class birthday tonight and everyone will be painting Calvin and Hobbes!

Finishing up a biography on Bill Watterson by Nevin Martell. Man does it bring back memories.

I haven't read that, but from my understanding the author never did get to interview him, right?

Finishing up a biography on Bill Watterson by Nevin Martell. Man does it bring back memories.

I haven't read that, but from my understanding the author never did get to interview him, right?

Spoilered since it's a prominent theme in the book

I still have 1/2 an hour to go in my audiobook, but it looks like he doesn't interview him. He does interview his mother.

Finishing up a biography on Bill Watterson by Nevin Martell. Man does it bring back memories.

I haven't read that, but from my understanding the author never did get to interview him, right?

Spoilered since it's a prominent theme in the book

I still have 1/2 an hour to go in my audiobook, but it looks like he doesn't interview him. He does interview his mother.

Is this like the documentary that came out a few years ago?

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Finishing up a biography on Bill Watterson by Nevin Martell. Man does it bring back memories.

I haven't read that, but from my understanding the author never did get to interview him, right?

Spoilered since it's a prominent theme in the book

I still have 1/2 an hour to go in my audiobook, but it looks like he doesn't interview him. He does interview his mother.

Is this like the documentary that came out a few years ago?

I have not seen, nor was I aware of a documentary.

Source of the post Still waiting on the Gone World to arrive

Source of the post Still waiting on the Gone World to arrive

I decided to put a hold on this from my library hearing all the reviews in here. I placed the hold on August 17th and still haven't received it.