EAN: 9781841594286

ST AUBYN EDWARD THE PATRICK MELROSE NOVELS

The Patrick Melrose Novels hilariously dissect the English upper class  conjuring a world of
decadence  amorality  greed  snobbery  and cruelty  but never without the possibility of grace.
Taken together  they are one of the most thrilling reading experiences in contemporary fiction.
Edward St. Aubyn chronicled the life of Patrick Melrose across five short novels  painting an
acrid portrait of a beleaguered and self-loathing world of privilege. Never Mind unfolds over a
day and an evening at the family's chateau in the south of France  where the sadistic and
terrifying figure of David Melrose dominates the lives of his rich and unhappy American wife 
Eleanor  and their five-year-old son  Patrick. Bad News opens as Patrick  now twenty-two years
old  sets off to collect his father's ashes from New York  where he will spend a drug-crazed
twenty-four hours. Back in England  Some Hope offers Patrick the possibility of recovery (and
the most debauched and riotous dinner party in contemporary fiction). 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. At Last  set over the single day of a funeral  is the stunning final
volume.

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