Edward St. Aubyn’s five Patrick Melrose novels — published beginning in 1992 and collected, to lavish praise, in 2012 — owe their popularity to the way they cross genres to satisfy two distinct ...
Publishers Weekly: The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, & Mother’s Milk
Coinciding with the publication of At Last, this omnibus edition shows that St. Aubyn’s five Patrick Melrose novels may well constitute one of the most ambitious novel cycles since Anthony Powell’s A ...
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, & Mother’s Milk
This elegant and witty satire on the dissatisfactions of family life, which continues the story of Patrick Melrose, the hero of St. Aubyn's U.S. debut (Some Hope ), opens in August 2000 at Patrick's ...
When I left off last week I was halfway through this quartet of low-life-in-the-midst-of-high-life novels, dissatisfied with the series’ prelude, Never Mind, but encouraged by the relative superiority ...
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