--The New York Review of Books, "Why did it take me so long to fall in love with the brilliant novels of Edward St. Macmillan Audio; Unabridged Edition (October 7, 2014), Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2016. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. I highly recommend these books to good readers, but be prepared: fasten your seatbelts; it’s going to be a bumpy ride – but worth it. The other aspect that I was always aware of while reading these was how immediate the experience was; it always felt very much as if one was right there with Patrick or other characters close to him. By turns harrowing and hilarious, this ambitious novel cycle dissects the English upper class. Moving between the harrowing and grotesque, to farce and something more hopeful, Patrick Melrose's journey to a form of adulthood is exceptionally long, convoluted, and difficult. Such a story, and so many quotable lines.
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--Lev Grossman, "Time", "Parental death, heroin, childhood rape, emotional frigidity, suicide, alcoholism...nothing about the plots can prepare you for the rich, acerbic comedy of St. Aubyn's world---or more surprising---its philosophical density." Please try your request again later. St Aubyns prose is poetic and lyrical and his interpretation of his drug experience was hugely unsettling but none the less valuable for the insight and understanding of such an experience. — Welcome to the planner's utopia. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Sorry, there was a problem saving your cookie preferences. Diabolically funny, unconventional and politically incorrect! philosophic discussion that lead . When I finished, I read them again.” ―Ann Patchett, The Guardian, “Extraordinary…acidic humor, stiletto-sharp.” ―Francine Prose, “Intoxicatingly witty.” ―The New York Review of Books, “Why did it take me so long to fall in love with the brilliant novels of Edward St. Aubyn?” ―Brett Easton Ellis, “The most brilliant English novelist of his generation.” ―Alan Hollinghurst, “Our purest living prose stylist.” ―The Guardian (London), “A smoldering portrait of a class largely banished from fiction.” ―James Lasdun, “Exquisitely harrowing entertainment.” ―Sam Lipsyte, “A spectacularly toxic confection.” ―The Village Voice, “Dialogue as amusing as Waugh's and narrative even more deft than Graham Greene's.” ―Edmund White, “A staggeringly good prose stylist.” ―The Times (London), “One of the preeminent writers of his generation.” ―Will Self. Worth reading but not as profound as many reviewers make it out to be. But so much bloviating! Pages and pages of (I guess?) Try again. "The Times (London)", One of the preeminent writers of his generation. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. As usual the two weren’t always in sync but this was not as big a problem as it sometimes can be. Collected into one volume for the first time, all five installments of Edward St. Aubyn's celebrated Patrick Melrose novelsNow an Emmy® award nominated 5-part limited event series on Showtime, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner. --"The Guardian" (London), "A smoldering portrait of a class largely banished from fiction." --Ann Patchett, "The Guardian ""Extraordinary...acidic humor, stiletto-sharp." Witty and eccentric. There's a problem loading this menu right now. No emotion is so subtle and fleeting he can't convey it, or so terrifying or shameful that he can't face it.” ―Lev Grossman, Time, “Parental death, heroin, childhood rape, emotional frigidity, suicide, alcoholism…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, Harper's Magazine, “I read the five Patrick Melrose novels in five days. --Brett Easton Ellis "The most brilliant English novelist of his generation." OK, I’m starting to “read between the lines” and will stop now. Aubyn is utterly fearless when faced with the task of unpacking and anatomizing the inner lives of characters.
Buy it for summer and dive into the five books over your holiday. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. "A rich and soulful novel, steeped in wanderlust and whimsy." "Alan Hollinghurst", Our purest living prose stylist. Worth reading but not as profound as many reviewers make it out to be. --"The Village Voice", "Dialogue as amusing as Waugh's and narrative even more deft than Graham Greene's." --Edmund White, "A staggeringly good prose stylist." Everyday low … I would hugely recommend this book to all. If there had not been so many glowing reviews by literate people, I would not have persisted beyond those brutally painful sections.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 10, 2018. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. --Ann Patchett, The Guardian, "Extraordinary...acidic humor, stiletto-sharp." At times I was appalled but also found myself unable to put the book down. This book/these novels are tremendously thought-provoking and I am desperate to discuss “what does it all mean” with other readers and yet there are what almost seem to be cautions to readers from “Patrick Melrose”/the author against reading too much between the lines and then “do nothing….do nothing….” So I will resist the very strong urge to “discuss” and simply say that there seems to me to be so much reading between the lines, such complexity and so much of importance in these novels that they are thoroughly worth persisting through to the end. "Zadie Smith, Harper's Magazine", I read the five Patrick Melrose novels in five days. --The Village Voice, "Dialogue as amusing as Waugh's and narrative even more deft than Graham Greene's." --"The Times" (London), "One of the preeminent writers of his generation." He is the author of the A Clue to the Exit, On the Edge, and the most recent Patrick Melrose novel, At Last (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). No emotion is so subtle and fleeting he can't convey it, or so terrifying or shameful that he can't face it.- --Lev Grossman, Time, -Parental death, heroin, childhood rape, emotional frigidity, suicide, alcoholism...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, Harper's Magazine, -I read the five Patrick Melrose novels in five days. Moving between the harrowing and grotesque, to farce and something more hopeful, Patrick Melrose's journey to a form of adulthood is exceptionally long, convoluted, and difficult. Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2018. No emotion is so subtle and fleeting he can't convey it, or so terrifying or shameful that he can't face it. Much could be said but I will just say this: it is hard to imagine what the author’s process was for creating these works; they are, after all, autobiographical by all accounts, and it just seems monumental to have been able to be both inside his head and yet able to get outside it to create this tangible “product” that encompasses so much, an amazing experience of the interior worlds of several characters and the exterior worlds that Patrick Melrose and other characters inhabit. NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn Atlantic Magazine Best Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year-The Melrose Novels are a masterwork for the twenty-first century, written by one of the great prose stylists in England.- --Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 10, 2018. "Sam Lipsyte", A spectacularly toxic confection. To his credit, he tries to be a good father to his own children. I feel sure this is writing and material that will stay in mind for a very long time. "James Wood, The New Yorker", Gorgeous, golden prose St. Aubyn is utterly fearless when faced with the task of unpacking and anatomizing the inner lives of characters. I have just finished the series of four novels (novellas, really) that comprise The Patrick Melrose Novels. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Patrick Melrose: The Novels at Amazon.com. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number.
Pages and pages of (I guess?) I was interested in reading this when I had watched the first programme in the recent tv serialisation. Started out well, but by the end, the last couple of novels, had turned into a middle class whinge fest with much of the narrative conveyed by the most unbelievably precocious children. At times I was appalled but also found myself unable to put the book down. Aubyn is utterly fearless when faced with the task of unpacking and anatomizing the inner lives of characters.
Please try again. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 20, 2019. From abuse to addiction, the second novel, Bad News opens as the twenty-two-year-old Patrick sets off to collect his father's ashes from New York, where he will spend a drug-crazed twenty-four hours. A 5-novel sequence which rewrites the nineteenth century bildungsroman for the twenty-first century. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. --James Lasdun, "Exquisitely harrowing entertainment." Edward St. Aubyn has penned one of the most acclaimed series of the decade with the Patrick Melrose Novels. --Sam Lipsyte, "A spectacularly toxic confection." "Edmund White", A staggeringly good prose stylist. We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads. There was a problem loading your book clubs.
Were they really capable, at age 2, of intelligently discussing philosophical ideas, doing incisive imitations of adults in the family's circle, etc.? NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn Atlantic Magazine Best Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year"The Melrose Novels are a masterwork for the twenty-first century, written by one of the great prose stylists in England." This is a collection of books 1-5 of the Patrick Melrose series. Mother's Milk was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Surely, the author had a horrible life thanks to his 2 horrible parents. This is the edition to buy if you are at all interested in the tale or had your appetite whetted by the recent television version. The fourth novel, 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 to a New Age foundation. To his credit, he tries to be a good father to his own children. "Brett Easton Ellis", The most brilliant English novelist of his generation. nowhere. Unable to add item to List.
--"The Boston Globe", "Implausibly brilliant speech...The striking gap between, on the one hand, the elegant polish of the narration, the silver rustle of these exquisite sentences, the poised narrowness of the social satire and, on the other hand, the screaming pain of the family violence inflicted on Patrick makes these books some of the strangest of contemporary novels ...This prose, whose repressed English control is admired by everyone from Alan Hollinghurst to Will Self, is drawn inexorably back to a fearful instability, to the nakedness of infancy." Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2018. And back in England, the third novel, Some Hope, offers a sober and clean Patrick the possibility of recovery. There's a problem loading this menu right now. --Edmund White, "A staggeringly good prose stylist." "The Village Voice", Dialogue as amusing as Waugh's and narrative even more deft than Graham Greene's. And touching and fun to read, but have a break in between each novel.
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