Americans in Paris in Patrick deWitt’s Wry, Dry French Exit

The Portland author expands his literary purview to include the idle rich.by Ned LannamannI willl read every book Patrick deWitt writes. The Portland author now has four novels under his belt, and each one is wildly, satisfyingly different—from the boozy Bukowski blackouts of his first, Ablutions: Notes for a Novel, to the Charles Portis-informed comic western of his best, the phenomenal The Sisters Brothers. From the fractured fairy tale of Undermajordomo Minor to the curdled high-society