Some Hope - Hardcover

St. Aubyn, Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0434734543 ISBN 13: 9780434734542

Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

This novel completes the trilogy which began with "Never Mind" and "Bad News". Patrick Melrose finds himself at a party for 500 "top people" in the Gloucestershire countryside. Here the themes of incest, privilege, royalty and corruption intertwine.

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Review

'The wit of Wilde, the lightness of Wodehouse, the waspishness of Waugh. A joy' Zadie Smith

‘St Aubyn’s Melrose series slices and dices morality with prose so chiselled and a narrative so intense that the hairs on the back of your neck stand up’ Geordie Greig, Evening Standard

‘I’ve loved Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels. Read them all, now’ David Nicholls

‘A memorable tour de force’ New York Times Book Review

‘A masterpiece. Edward St Aubyn is a writer of immense gifts’ Patrick McGrath

‘From the very first lines I was completely hooked . . . By turns witty, moving and an intense social comedy, I wept at the end but wouldn’t dream of giving away the totally unexpected reason’ Antonia Fraser, Sunday Telegraph

‘Irony courses through these pages like adrenaline . . . Patrick’s intelligence processes his predicaments into elegant, lucid, dispassionate, near-aphoristic formulations . . . Brimming with witty flair, sardonic perceptiveness and literary finesse’ Peter Kemp, Sunday Times

‘Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation’ Alan Hollinghurst

‘The Patrick Melrose novels can be read as the navigational charts of a mariner desperate not to end up in the wretched harbor from which he embarked on a voyage that has led in and out of heroin addiction, alcoholism, marital infidelity and a range of behaviors for which the term ‘self-destructive’ is the mildest of euphemisms. Some of the most perceptive, elegantly written and hilarious novels of our era. . . Remarkable’ Francine Prose, New York Times

‘Wonderful caustic wit . . . Perhaps the very sprightliness of the prose – its lapidary concision and moral certitude – represents the cure for which the characters yearn. So much good writing is in itself a form of health’ Edmund White, Guardian

Book Description

Some Hope finds Patrick qualified as a barrister and speaking for the first time about the damage in his past, searching for redemption amidst a crowd of glittering social dragonflies whose vapidity is the subject of his most stinging and memorable barbs.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0434734543
• ISBN 13: 9780434734542
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192