Some Hope

Zusatztext 'One of the most amazing reading experiences I've had in a decade.' Michael Chabon, LA Times Informationen zum Autor Edward St Aubyn's superbly acclaimed Melrose novels are Never Mind , Bad News , Some Hope , Mother's Milk (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006) and At Last . He is also the author of the novels A Clue to the Exit , On the Edge , Lost for Words and Dunbar . Klappentext Some Hope is the third of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical series, The Patrick Melrose Novels, filmed for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick. Patrick Melrose, cleaned-up and world-weary, is a reluctant guest at a glittering party deep in the English countryside. Amid a crowd of flitting social dragonflies, he finds his search for redemption and capacity for forgiveness challenged by his observation of the cruelties around him. Armed with his biting wit and a newly fashioned openness, can Patrick, who has been to the furthest limits of experience and back again, find release from the savageries of his childhood? This title was originally published, along with Never Mind and Bad News, as part of a three book omnibus, also called Some Hope. The third darkly humorous novel in the critically acclaimed Patrick Melrose series Zusammenfassung The third darkly humorous novel in the critically acclaimed Patrick Melrose series.

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'Humor, 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

Product details

• Authors: Edward St Aubyn, Edward St. Aubyn
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2012
• EAN: 9781447202967
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-0296-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Picador; The Patrick Melrose Novels; Patrick Melrose; The Patrick Melrose Novels; Picador Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; England, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Humorous fiction, Biographical, Modern and contemporary fiction, Satirical, Family Life / General, Humorous / Black Humor