You are a bartender in a seedy Hollywood bar. You are a perennial loser. Your customers are, also, losers. You have no friends. Your only acquaintances are the bar customers. You come into contact with a variety of misfits and degenerates. Your wife leaves you. Your car gives up on you.You hatch a plan to escape the drudgery of your life. You just want some happiness.This is an excellent book. De Witt paints of vivid yet sleazy and squalid picture, packed with humour. Amazing look into the fictional everyday life of a bartender. Written entirely in the second person, this book reads like a series of notes that he wrote to himself. So very darkly humorous an gritty. There were elements of both Charles Bukowski and Chuck Palahniuk here. This book perfectly fell into an episode of This American Life that I just heard where they talked about how the vast majority of bartenders work every weekend high on cocaine. There are so many drugs in this book...
It's different. I would recommend to read it. It's good that it's rather short..
—fito
One of the most depressingly creative and interesting books you may ever read.
—sockqueen182
booze & pills & sad / abundance enough to drown / but instead you float
—Sunelle
Like going on a bender, with extra olives.
—renee
Creepy and awesome, he's a master writer
—Kimbo
