Patrick Dewitt

Undermajordomo Minor Patrick Dewitt

Publisher Marketing: From the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers, comes a brilliant and boisterous novel that reimagines the folk tale. A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners, Undermajordomo Minor is Patrick deWitt's long-awaited follow-up to the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Sisters Brothers. 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 of the castle's master, Baron Von Aux. He also encounters the colorful people of the local village-thieves, madmen, aristocrats, and Klara, a delicate beauty whose love he must compete for with the exceptionally handsome soldier, Adolphus. Thus begins a tale of polite theft, bitter heartbreak, domestic mystery, and cold-blooded murder in which every aspect of human behavior is laid bare for our hero to observe. Undermajordomo Minor is an adventure, a mystery, and a searing portrayal of rural Alpine bad behavior, but above all it is a love story and Lucy must be careful, for love is a violent thing. Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/01/2015 pg. 61 (EAN 9780062281203, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 06/08/2015 (EAN 9780062281203, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Library Journal 07/01/2015 pg. 75 (EAN 9780062281203, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2015 (EAN 9780062281203, Hardcover) Booklist 09/15/2015 pg. 29 (EAN 9780062281203, Hardcover) - *Starred Review BookPage 09/01/2015 (EAN 9780062281203, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 09/20/2015 pg. 17 (EAN 9780062281203, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  DeWitt, Patrick Patrick deWitt is the author of the critically acclaimed Ablutions: Notes for a Novel, as well as The Sisters Brothers, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize. Born in British Columbia, he has also lived in California and Washington, and now resides in Portland, Oregon. Contributor Bio:  Prebble, Simon Simon Prebble has worked extensively on British and American television as both actor and narrator.