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Zusatztext 'One of the most amazing reading experiences I've had in a decade.' Michael Chabon, LA Times Informationen zum Autor Edward St Aubyn was born in London in 1960. His superbly acclaimed Melrose novels are Never Mind , Bad News , Some Hope (published collectively as the Some Hope trilogy), 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 and On the Edge . Klappentext Bad News is the second of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick. Twenty-two years old and in the grip of a massive addiction, Patrick Melrose is forced to fly to New York to collect his father's ashes. Over the course of a weekend, Patrick's remorseless search for drugs on the avenues of Manhattan, haunted by old acquaintances and insistent inner voices, sends him into a nightmarish spiral. Alone in his room at the Pierre Hotel, he pushes body and mind to the very edge - desperate always to stay one step ahead of his rapidly encroaching past. Bad News was originally published, along with Never Mind and Some Hope, as part of a three book omnibus also called Some Hope. In the second novel in the series, Patrick Melrose battles with his drug addiction over a hallucinatory weekend in New York Zusammenfassung Bad News is the second of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick. Twenty-two years old and in the grip of a massive addiction, Patrick Melrose is forced to fly to New York to collect his father’s ashes. Over the course of a weekend, Patrick’s remorseless search for drugs on the avenues of Manhattan, haunted by old acquaintances and insistent inner voices, sends him into a nightmarish spiral. Alone in his room at the Pierre Hotel, he pushes body and mind to the very edge – desperate always to stay one step ahead of his rapidly encroaching past. Bad News was originally published, along with Never Mind and Some Hope , as part of a three book omnibus also called Some Hope . ...
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In the second novel in the series, Patrick Melrose battles with his drug addiction over a hallucinatory weekend in New York.
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'I've loved Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels. Read them all, now' David Nicholls
