Some Hope - Brossura

St Aubyn, Edward

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0330435884 ISBN 13: 9780330435888

Casa editrice: Picador, 2007

Riassunto

From Provence to New York to Gloucestershire, through the savageries of a childhood with a tyrannical father and an alcoholic mother to a young adulthood fraught with drug addiction, we follow Patrick Melrose's search for redemption amidst a crowd of glittering social dragonflies whose vapidity is the subject of his most stinging and memorable barbs. A story of abuse, addiction and recovery, the trilogy is a haunting yet hilarious depiction of a journey to and from the furthest limits of the human experience. Ultimately, Some Hope offers what the title suggests - a powerfully satisfying conclusion and the reconciliation between the quest for forgiveness and redemption, marking St Aubyn as a truly important literary discovery, one of the most original, intelligent and acerbically witty voices of our time. `Our purest living prose stylist' Guardian `This is beautifully written novel . . . whose harrowing but fiercely funny portrait of addiction is the best I've ever read' Time Out `Tantalizing . . . A memorable tour de force' New York Times Book Review `St Aubyn can write dialogue as amusing as Waugh's and narrative even more deft than Graham Greene's' Edmund White `Mordant, acute, and ultimately deeply moving, this trilogy establishes him as one of the pre-eminent English writers of his generation' Will Self

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Recensione

'The wit of Wilde, the lightness of Wodehouse, the waspishness of Waugh. A joy' Zadie Smith

‘St Aubyn’s Melrose series slices and dices morality with prose so chiselled and a narrative so intense that the hairs on the back of your neck stand up’ Geordie Greig, Evening Standard

‘I’ve loved Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels. Read them all, now’ David Nicholls

‘A memorable tour de force’ New York Times Book Review

‘A masterpiece. Edward St Aubyn is a writer of immense gifts’ Patrick McGrath

‘From the very first lines I was completely hooked . . . By turns witty, moving and an intense social comedy, I wept at the end but wouldn’t dream of giving away the totally unexpected reason’ Antonia Fraser, Sunday Telegraph

‘Irony courses through these pages like adrenaline . . . Patrick’s intelligence processes his predicaments into elegant, lucid, dispassionate, near-aphoristic formulations . . . Brimming with witty flair, sardonic perceptiveness and literary finesse’ Peter Kemp, Sunday Times

‘Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation’ Alan Hollinghurst

‘The Patrick Melrose novels can be read as the navigational charts of a mariner desperate not to end up in the wretched harbor from which he embarked on a voyage that has led in and out of heroin addiction, alcoholism, marital infidelity and a range of behaviors for which the term ‘self-destructive’ is the mildest of euphemisms. Some of the most perceptive, elegantly written and hilarious novels of our era. . . Remarkable’ Francine Prose, New York Times

‘Wonderful caustic wit . . . Perhaps the very sprightliness of the prose – its lapidary concision and moral certitude – represents the cure for which the characters yearn. So much good writing is in itself a form of health’ Edmund White, Guardian

Descrizione del libro

Set amid the luxury and squalor that characterize New York City, aristocrat Patrick Melrose endures a disastrous marriage and drug addiction on a roller-coaster ride to destruction.

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• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0330435884
• ISBN 13: 9780330435888
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 464