Mother's Milk

Zusatztext 'The wit of Wilde! the lightness of Wodehouse and the waspishness of Waugh. A joy' Zadie Smith! Harpers 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 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mother's Milk is the fourth of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick. The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril. Caught up in the wreckage of broken promises, child-rearing, adultery and assisted suicide, Patrick finds his wife Mary consumed by motherhood, his mother in thrall to a New Age foundation, and his young son Robert understanding far more than he should. But even as the family struggles against the pull of its ever-present past, a new generation brings a new tenderness, and the possibility of change. The penultimate novel in the Patrick Melrose novels, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Zusammenfassung The penultimate novel in the Patrick Melrose novels, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

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: 9781447203025
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-0302-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Picador; Patrick Melrose; The Patrick Melrose Novels; Patrick Melrose; The Patrick Melrose Novels; Picador Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); England, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Fatherhood, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Humorous fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Satirical