At Last - Brossura

St. Aubyn, Edward

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ISBN 10: 1250023904 ISBN 13: 9781250023902

Casa editrice: Picador USA, 2012

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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 inThe 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 Americam 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.

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Edward St. Aubyn was born in London in 1960. He is the author of A Clue to the Exitand On the Edge; a series of novels about the Melrose family, including the trilogySome Hope; and Mother’s Milk, which was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize.

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• Editore: Picador USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1250023904
• ISBN 13: 9781250023902
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 266