And Lucy must be careful, for love is a violent thing. It is an adventure story, and a mystery, and a searing portrayal of rural Alpine bad behaviour with a brandy tart, but above all it is a love story. Lucy Minor, a bored and pompous young man, leaves his fairy talelike hamlet of Bury to begin a new life as. Undermajordomo Minor is a triumphant ink-black comedy of manners by the Man Booker shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers. Ecco, 26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-228120-3. Lucy must stay safe, and protect his puppy, because someone or something is roaming the corridors of the castle late at night. Thus begins a tale of polite theft, bitter heartbreak, domestic mystery and cold-blooded murder in which every aspect of human behaviour is laid bare for our hero to.
From the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The. He also meets Klara, a delicate beauty who is, unfortunately, already involved with an exceptionally handsome partisan soldier. 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. Read 1,915 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. When Lucy accepts employment assisting the majordomo of the remote, forbidding castle of the Baron Von Aux he meets thieves, madmen, aristocrats, and a puppy.
Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, he is a compulsive liar and a melancholy weakling. Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Canadian author Patrick deWitt explains his latest novel Under Major Domo Minor, a gothic fairy tale about Lucien/ Lucy Minor, a liar who takes a job at. Description for Undermajordomo Minor Paperback.
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