For more than twenty years, acclaimed author Edward St. Aubyn has chronicled the life of Patrick Melrose, painting an acrid portrait of the beleaguered and self-loathing world of privilege. This single volume collects the first four novels---"Never Mind, Bad News, ""Some Hope, " and "Mother's Milk, "a Man Booker finalist---to coincide with the publication of "At Last," the final installment of this unique novel cycle. By turns harrowing and hilarious, these beautifully written novels dissect the English upper class as we follow Patrick Melrose's story from child abuse to heroin addiction and recovery. "Never Mind, "the first novel, unfolds over a day and an evening at the family's chateaux in the south of France, where the sadistic and terrifying figure of David Melrose dominates the lives of his five-year-old son, Patrick, and his rich and unhappy American mother, Eleanor. 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. And back in England, the third novel, "Some Hope, "offers a sober and clean Patrick the possibility of recovery. 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. Edward St. Aubyn offers a window into a world of utter decadence, amorality, greed, snobbery, and cruelty---welcome to the declining British aristocracy.
0 有用 粉红色大象 2012-06-06 16:34:18
Great disections of disfunctional families and relationships between so called friends.
0 有用 玛黑区甜心 2018-11-01 02:16:42
前两本写的非常精彩。
5 有用 cannot 2018-05-18 20:23:09
为什么我觉得故事拍出来比较有趣
0 有用 _100710 2019-04-01 23:57:48
多lucky 今年1月份学校图书馆才新到的
0 有用 sonbugs 2018-09-06 00:03:06
You can blame whoever you want for your miserable life. But I know it must be your parents from the beginning and usually till the end(core).
0 有用 Namimono 2019-10-19 23:06:54
十分痛苦的阅读过程
0 有用 ooopsy 2019-06-12 16:37:59
开头就很惊艳,可惜我看得太潦草
0 有用 _100710 2019-04-01 23:57:48
多lucky 今年1月份学校图书馆才新到的
0 有用 Flowereater 2019-01-28 16:42:21
剧也一级棒!书也一级棒!!
0 有用 玛黑区甜心 2018-11-01 02:16:42
前两本写的非常精彩。