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The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother s Milk
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn Atlantic Magazine Best Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year The Melrose Novels are a masterwork for the twentyfirst century, written by one of the great prose stylists in England. Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely BonesSoon to be a Showtime TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe DannerFor more than twenty years, acclaimed author Edward St. Aubyn has chronicled the life of Patrick Melrose, painting an extraordinary portrait of the beleaguered and selfloathing world of privilege. This single volume collects the first four novelsNever Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother s Milk, a Man Booker finalistto coincide with the publication of At Last, the final installment of this unique novel cycle.By turns harrowing and hilarious, these beautifully written novels dissect the English upper class as we follow Patrick Melrose s story from child abuse to heroin addiction and recovery. Never Mind, the first novel, unfolds over a day and an evening at the family s chateaux in the south of France, where the sadistic and terrifying figure of David Melrose dominates the lives of his fiveyearold son, Patrick, and his rich and unhappy American mother, Eleanor. From abuse to addiction, the second novel, Bad News opens as the twentytwoyearold Patrick sets off to collect his father s ashes from New York, where he will spend a drugcrazed twentyfour hours. And back in England, the third novel, Some Hope, offers a sober and clean Patrick the possibility of recovery. The fourth novel, the Bookershortlisted 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 to a New Age foundation.Edward St. Aubyn offers a window into a world of utter decadence, amorality, greed, snobbery, and crueltywelcome to the declining British aristocracy.
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