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Parental death, heroin, childhood rape, emotional frigidity, suicide, alcoholism — the five Patrick Melrose novels have it all. In her introduction to this collection of Edward St Aubyn’s works, Zadie Smith tries to sell these books — tragic but also full of pitch-black humour — as holiday reads ...
May 14, 2018 · The five Patrick Melrose novels are intense, brutal, and beautiful, witty and acerbically well-observed. If you’re here, you probably know this already. If not, I will tell you by way of explanation that Edward St. Aubyn’s series, published between 1992 and 2011, is a deft mash-up of the English social novel and what I suppose is best described […]
Edward St. Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels were some of the most celebrated works of fiction of the past decade. Ecstatic praise came from a wide range of admirers, from literary superstars such as Zadie Smith, Francine Prose, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Michael Chabon to pop-culture icons such as Anthony Bourdain and January Jones.
Nov 16, 2020 · The Patrick Melrose Novels were recommended to me by a novelist I know, and it was an excellent choice. The series takes the life of its hero, Patrick, from the age of five right up to middle age. Born in the early 1960s, Patrick’s life runs in many ways parallel to those of my parents and their generation.
Oct 7, 2014 · “Like Waugh, St. Aubyn writes with exquisite control and a brilliant comic touch…Patrick often seems like a Philip Roth hero transplanted into a world of English privilege…The Patrick Melrose Series forms an exhaustive study of cruelty: its varieties, its motivations, its consequences, its moral implications…At Last is an intelligent and surprising novel, a fitting conclusion to the ...
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Jan 1, 2001 · Well, nuts. I practically lit “Bad News,” the second book of Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose series off of the first super innovative, funny, dark, mind-blowing first novel of the series and meh. It turned out be a dud follow up to a book that made me shoot exclamation points from my pores.
May 8, 2018 · His acclaimed Patrick Melrose novels are Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother's Milk (winner of the Prix Femina étranger and short-listed for the Man Booker Prize), and At Last. The series was made into a BAFTA Award–winning Sky Atlantic TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch. St. Aubyn is also the author of A Clue to the Exit, On the ...
