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Synopsis
NATIONAL BESTSELLER An" Atlantic Magazine" Best Book of the YearA "Publishers Weekly" Best Book of the Year "The Melrose Novels are a masterwork for the twenty-first century, written by one of the great prose stylists in England." --Alice Sebold, author of "The Lovely Bones" For more than twenty years, acclaimed author Edward St. Aubyn has chronicled the life of Patrick Melrose, painting an extraordinary portrait of the beleaguered and self-loathing world of privilege. This single volume collects the first four novels--"Never Mind," "Bad News," "Some Hope," and "Mother's Milk," a Man Booker finalist--to coincide with the publication of "At Last," the final installment of this unique novel cycle.By turns harrowing and hilarious, these beautifully written novels dissect the English upper class as we follow Patrick Melrose's story from child abuse to heroin addiction and recovery. "Never Mind," the first novel, unfolds over a day and an evening at the family's chateaux in the south of France, where the sadistic and terrifying figure of David Melrose dominates the lives of his five-year-old son, Patrick, and his rich and unhappy American mother, Eleanor. From abuse to addiction, the second novel, "Bad News" opens as the twenty-two-year-old Patrick sets off to collect his father's ashes from New York, where he will spend a drug-crazed twenty-four hours. And back in England, the third novel, "Some Hope," offers a sober and clean Patrick the possibility of recovery. The fourth novel, the Booker-shortlisted "Mother's Milk," returns to the family chateau, where Patrick, now married and a father himself, struggles with child rearing, adultery, his mother's desire for assisted suicide, and the loss of the family home to a New Age foundation.Edward St. Aubyn offers a window into a world of utter decadence, amorality, greed, snobbery, and cruelty--welcome to the declining British aristocracy.
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Review
Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation (Alan Hollinghurst)
I've loved Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels. Read them all, now (David Nicholls)
The wit of Wilde, the lightness of Wodehouse, the waspishness of Waugh. A joy (Zadie Smith)
At once epic and intimate, appalling and comic, the Melrose novels are masterpieces (Maggie O'Farrell)
Humour, pathos, razor-sharp judgement, pain, joy and everything in between. The Melrose novels are a masterwork for the twenty-first century, by one of our greatest prose stylists (Alice Sebold)
Book Description
The dark but witty The Patrick Melrose Novels charts the life story of the highly dysfunctional, upper-class Patrick, together in one volume.
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- PublisherMacmillan Audio
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1427259933
- ISBN 13 9781427259936
- BindingAudio CD
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