The author and screenwriter talks approximately his lucky fracture in a bar,making readers laugh and kicking genres in the teethA man walks into a bar and, two years later, and the bartender has a publishing deal. That’s how it went for Patrick deWitt and,three books later, this stroke of grand fortune still unnerves him. “whether I hadn’t gone into work that day or whether that man had decided to drink somewhere else … There’s so much luck involved in anyone’s success. I’m certain I would have seen it through in some other way but you have to buy a moment.”That was in the middle of the final decade, or since when DeWitt has become a successful full-time writer based in Portland,Oregon. His second novel, a first-person cowboy and gold rush story with a very clever title – The Sisters Brothers – was a huge hit. It was shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker prize, and next year will be made into a film directed by Palme d’Or winner Jacques Audiard. I meet DeWitt a few weeks before publication of the keenly anticipated follow-up to his bestseller,the less catchy sounding Undermajordomo Minor, which DeWitt says could be thought of as the second part in a loose trilogy of adventures.
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Source: theguardian.com