French Exit
Scotiabank Giller Prize · 2018 · Shortlist
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Scotiabank Giller Prize | 2018 | Shortlist |
About This Book
Manhattan socialite Frances Price and her son Malcolm take their remaining money and cat to Paris as their fortune dwindles. A darkly comic novel of aristocratic decline and Parisian reinvention. Giller Prize finalist.
About the Author
Patrick deWitt is a Canadian-American novelist born on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. He is best known for The Sisters Brothers (2011), a darkly comic Western novel about two hired-gun brothers travelling to California during the Gold Rush, which won the Governor General's Literary Award and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The Sisters Brothers was adapted into a 2018 film directed by Jacques Audiard and starring Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Read more →
