Edward st aubyn - Patrick Melrose

Zusatztext The most brilliant British novelist writing today 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 'Remarkable - ferociously funny, painfully acute and exhilaratingly written' Sunday Times Moving from Provence to New York to Gloucestershire, from the savageries of a childhood with a cruel father and an alcoholic mother to an adulthood fraught with addiction, Patrick Melrose is on a mission to escape himself. But the drugs don't make him forget his past, and the glittering parties offer him no redemption . . . Searingly funny and deeply humane, Patrick Melrose: Volume 1 contains the first three novels in the Patrick Melrose series, Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope. 'Humour, pathos, razor-sharp judgement, pain, joy and everything in between. The Melrose novels are a masterwork for the twenty-first century' Alice Sebold ''The Patrick Melrose novels are masterpieces, each and every one' Maggie O'Farrell Zusammenfassung Patrick Melrose Volume 1 is a story of abuse, addiction and recovery. It introduces a character like no other, on a journey to the furthest limits of human experience.

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The Melrose sequence is now clearly one of the major achievements of contemporary British fiction. Stingingly well-written and exhilaratingly funny David Sexton Evening Standard

Product details

• Authors: Edward St Aubyn, AUBYN EDWARD ST, Edward St Aubyn, Edward St. Aubyn
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781509897681
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-9768-1
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Patrick Melrose; Patrick Melrose
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); New York City, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Family Life / General, France, FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Literary, Gloucestershire, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Dysfunctional Families, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Humorous fiction, Autobiography: literary, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Satirical style / satire