The Patrick Melrose Novels

Edward St Aubyn

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Everyman's Library
07 December 2024

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction: special features

Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics

A beautiful Contemporary Classics hardcover omnibus edition of all five Patrick Melrose novels, one of the greatest fiction cycles of our time

The Patrick Melrose Novels hilariously dissect the English upper class, conjuring a world of decadence, amorality, greed, snobbery, and cruelty, but never without the possibility of grace. Taken together, they are one of the most thrilling reading experiences in contemporary fiction.

Edward St. Aubyn chronicled the life of Patrick Melrose across five short novels, painting an acrid portrait of a beleaguered and self-loathing world of privilege. Never Mind unfolds over a day and an evening at the family's chateau in the south of France, where the sadistic and terrifying figure of David Melrose dominates the lives of his rich and unhappy American wife, Eleanor, and their five-year-old son, Patrick. Bad News opens as Patrick, now twenty-two years old, sets off to collect his father's ashes from New York, where he will spend a drug-crazed twenty-four hours. Back in England, Some Hope offers Patrick the possibility of recovery (and the most debauched and riotous dinner party in contemporary fiction). The Booker-shortlisted 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. At Last, set over the single day of a funeral, is the stunning final volume.

By: Edward St Aubyn
Imprint: Everyman's Library
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 212mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 44mm
Weight: 822g
ISBN: 9781841594286
ISBN 10: 1841594288
Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
Pages: 808
Publication Date: 07 December 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

EDWARD ST. AUBYN was born in London in 1960. His acclaimed Patrick Melrose novels are Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother's Milk (winner of the Prix Femina etranger and shortlisted for the Booker Prize), and At Last. He is also the author of A Clue to the Exit, On the Edge (short-listed for the Guardian Fiction Prize), Lost for Words (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Double Blind, and Dunbar, his reimagining of King Lear for the Hogarth Shakespeare project.

Reviews for The Patrick Melrose Novels

I read the five Patrick Melrose novels in five days. When I finished, I read them again -- Ann Patchett Nothing about the plots can prepare you for the rich, acerbic comedy of St. Aubyn’s world or—more surprising—its philosophical density -- Zadie Smith If something has kept you from reading this great novel in five parts, let it keep you no more. -- Jonathan Franzen Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation -- Alan Hollinghurst