I became a huge Patrick DeWitt fan after reading Sisters
Brothers, which was a fresh take on the western novel genre. I loved his
storytelling ability along with the abundance of offbeat humor and adventure. I
am pleased to report that his latest book, Under Major Domo Minor, shares
those same attributes while departing from the western theme. In this telling,
our hero, Lucien, is a sickly, coming-of-age nobody from a nothing village. A
kindly priest finds him an opportunity to work under a Majordomo from a far
off, decrepit castle in the mountains, and here his adventure begins.
The castle, part ‘Rocky Horror,’ part pure
horror, part Monty Python, tests young Lucien in every way possible. Along the
way he meets pickpockets, soldiers, decadent nobility, and, perhaps, the love
of his life. Allow yourself to be swept away in the adventures of a most
unlikely hero in a most unsettling castle, the dreaded Castle Von Aux.
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