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At Last: The Final Patrick Melrose NovelA New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Time Magazine Best Book of the Year An Esquire Best Book of Year "Beautifully wrought . . . Brutally funny and sad." Vanity Fair The fifth novel in Edward St. Aubyn's stunning cycle about his protagonist Patrick Melrose. The last four novels in the cycle are available in The Patrick Melrose Novels. Here, from the writer described by The Guardian as "our purest living prose stylist" and whom Alan Hollinghurst
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Time Magazine Best Book of the Year
An Esquire Best Book of Year
"Beautifully wrought . . . Brutally funny and sad."--Vanity Fair
The fifth novel in Edward St. Aubyn's stunning cycle about his protagonist Patrick Melrose. The last four novels in the cycle are available in The Patrick Melrose Novels.
Here, from the writer described by The Guardian as "our purest living prose stylist" and whom Alan Hollinghurst has called "the most brilliant English novelist of his generation," is a work of glittering social comedy, profound emotional truth, and acute verbal wit.
As readers of Edward St. Aubyn's extraordinary earlier works--Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and the Man Booker Prize finalist Mother's Milk--are well aware, for Patrick Melrose, "family" has always been a double-edged sword. At Last begins as friends, relatives, and foes trickle in to pay final respects to his mother, Eleanor. An American heiress, Eleanor married into the British aristocracy, giving up the grandeur of her upbringing for "good works" freely bestowed on everyone but her own son, who finds himself questioning whether his transition to a life without parents will indeed be the liberation he had so long imagined.
The service ends, and family and friends gather for a final party. Amid the social niceties and social horrors, Patrick begins to sense the prospect of release from the extremes of his childhood, and at the end of the day, alone in his room, the promise some form of safety. . . at last.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 12/24/2012
ISBN: 9781250023902
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.21h x 5.56w x 0.73d
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 02/10/2013 pg. 28
New Yorker (The) 06/02/2014 pg. 43
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