· The hero of “Undermajordomo Minor” — Lucien Minor, slyly called Lucy throughout — is similarly familiar yet slippery: He’s a simpleton with a few tricks up his sleeve, pursuing selfish Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. 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 /5(). 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 .
Patrick deWitt (born ) is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter. Born on Vancouver Island, deWitt lives in Portland, Oregon and has acquired American citizenship. As of , he has written four novels: Ablutions (), The Sisters Brothers (), Undermajordomo Minor () and French Exit (). Undermajordomo Minor is a novel by Canadian-born author Patrick www.doorway.ru is his third novel and was published by House of Anansi Press on September 5, The novel is a gothic fable set in an unspecified time and location that has been compared to 19th-century Central and Eastern Europe. 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. © Patrick deWitt (P) HarperCollins Publishers.
Undermajordomo Minor is a novel by Canadian-born author Patrick deWitt. It is his third novel and was published by House of Anansi Press on September 5, [1] The novel is a gothic fable set in an unspecified time and location that has been compared to 19th-century Central and Eastern Europe. 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. Patrick deWitt. 13, ratings1, reviews. Lucy Minor is the resident odd duck in the hamlet of Bury. He is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for begetting brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts employment assisting the majordomo of the remote, foreboding Castle Von Aux. While tending to his new post as undermajordomo, he soon discovers the place harbours many dark secrets, not least of which is the whereabouts of the castle's master, Baron Von Aux.
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