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.
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前言 了解作家本人，会让阅读带上不同的意义，于“梅尔罗斯”尤其如此。 写出“梅尔罗斯”有多难 《Never Mind》出版于1992年。圣·奥宾开始写作这个故事，则是在父亲去世后的几个月，也就是1985年。当时他二十五岁，处于身心最为危急的时候。在身体上，他已经数度因为吸毒过量...
评分前言 了解作家本人，会让阅读带上不同的意义，于“梅尔罗斯”尤其如此。 写出“梅尔罗斯”有多难 《Never Mind》出版于1992年。圣·奥宾开始写作这个故事，则是在父亲去世后的几个月，也就是1985年。当时他二十五岁，处于身心最为危急的时候。在身体上，他已经数度因为吸毒过量...
评分前言 了解作家本人，会让阅读带上不同的意义，于“梅尔罗斯”尤其如此。 写出“梅尔罗斯”有多难 《Never Mind》出版于1992年。圣·奥宾开始写作这个故事，则是在父亲去世后的几个月，也就是1985年。当时他二十五岁，处于身心最为危急的时候。在身体上，他已经数度因为吸毒过量...
评分前言 了解作家本人，会让阅读带上不同的意义，于“梅尔罗斯”尤其如此。 写出“梅尔罗斯”有多难 《Never Mind》出版于1992年。圣·奥宾开始写作这个故事，则是在父亲去世后的几个月，也就是1985年。当时他二十五岁，处于身心最为危急的时候。在身体上，他已经数度因为吸毒过量...
评分前言 了解作家本人，会让阅读带上不同的意义，于“梅尔罗斯”尤其如此。 写出“梅尔罗斯”有多难 《Never Mind》出版于1992年。圣·奥宾开始写作这个故事，则是在父亲去世后的几个月，也就是1985年。当时他二十五岁，处于身心最为危急的时候。在身体上，他已经数度因为吸毒过量...
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Seems a bit over-rated by the New Yorker.
评分Great disections of disfunctional families and relationships between so called friends.
评分断断续续读了两个半月，啃得太辛苦了……行文流畅笔锋又冷，字里行间挥之不去的自嘲和尖锐，小说里的Melrose爱人被爱都是无法停止的困苦，相比之下剧版是多么仁慈。
评分为什么我觉得故事拍出来比较有趣
评分Great disections of disfunctional families and relationships between so called friends.
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