num_pages: 162
description: In a famous but declining Hollywood bar works A Barman. Morbidly amused by the decadent decay of his surroundings he watches the patrons fall into their nightly oblivion making notes for his novel. In the hope of uncovering their secrets and motives he establishes tentative friendships with the cast of variously pathological regulars. But as his tenure at the bar continues he begins to serve himself more often than his customers and the moments he lives outside the bar become more and more painful: he loses his wife his way himself. Trapped by his habits and his loneliness he realizes he will not survive if he doesn't break free. And so he hatches a terrible but necessary plan of escape and his only chance for redemption. Step into Ablutions and step behind the bar below rock bottom and beyond the everyday take on storytelling for a brilliant new twist on the classic tale of addiction and its consequences.
language: English
title: Ablutions
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt