Patrick Melrose
The Novels
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ISBN10: 1250305667
ISBN13: 9781250305664
Trade Paperback
880 Pages
$20.00
CA$26.00
By turns harrowing and hilarious, this ambitious novel cycle dissects the English upper class. Edward St. Aubyn offers his reader the often darkly funny and self-loathing world of privilege as we follow Patrick Melrose's story of abuse, addiction, and recovery from the age of five into early middle age.
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Praise for Patrick Melrose
“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.”—The Boston Globe
“Parental death, heroin, childhood rape, emotional frigidity, suicide, alcoholism…nothing about the plots can prepare you for the rich, acerbic comedy of St. Aubyn's world.”—Zadie Smith, Harper's Magazine
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Edward St. Aubyn
