The Patrick Melrose Novels
Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk
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Follows the life of Patrick Melrose, a member of an upper class English family, through his traumatic childhood with an abusive father, drug addiction, fatherhood, and the possible loss of his family home.
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Imprint:
New York - Picador
Pages:
680
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9780312429966, 0312429967
Language:
English
Awards & Distinctions:
Fiction, New, 2012_03
Notes:
Never mind -- Bad news -- Some hope -- Mother's milk
Statement of responsibility:
Edward St. Aubyn
Characteristics:
680 p. ;,21 cm
Library Identifier
2958063
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Add a CommentSt. Aubyn has an amazing capacity to illuminate very dark material with a ruminative style laced with acidic wit. He writes economically, sketching a scene or character with deft, bold strokes immediately capturing recognizable society 'types.' I found his style immediately accessible and entertaining, the world he described both familiar and exotic, his delineation of family and the peculiar, long-lasting effects of suffering abuse remarkably vivid, affecting, and bracingly real.
Dark and sometimes very funny. Aubyn can certainly write (I would say he can *really* write; I read these books compulsively), but some parts of these stories about the life of Patrick Melrose are bleak. You don't know if you should cry, or laugh, or try and remember they are stories and do neither. Strange but wonderful.
Started this book but it was due and could not renew at time. I got up to page 96. (interesting so far but hard to get into)