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The Patrick Melrose Trilogy (Paperback)

by Edward St.Aubyn (Author)
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  • Paperback: 560 pages
  • Publisher: Minerva (15 May 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099274507
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099274506
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 800,303 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Incorporates in one volume: "Never Mind", "Bad News" and "Some Hope". Set among the vertiginous contrasts of luxury and squalor which 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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5.0 out of 5 stars Narcotic fall and rise of elegant wastrel, 16 Nov 2000
Edward St Aubyn has created in Patrick Melrose a compelling anti hero, forever jousting with the twin demons of drugs and family. The three novels which make up the trilogy, Never Mind, Bad News, and Some Hope, are bundled in this compendium, and benefit from being packaged together. Charting Patrick's miserable childhood with his entirely dysfunctional family, through his chemical oddyssey to New York to collect his father's ashes, the story closes with an an excruciating dinner party featuring a deliciously wicked portrayal of Princess Margaret.

It is not easy to identify with Patrick Melrose, since he has a ferocious appetite for hard drugs which is almost matched by his withering contempt for most of the people he is forced to deal with every day. St Aubyn's skill is in making the reader care for such a superficially disagreeable character. His prose style is very precise and economical, and his ear for a certain kind of cruel aristocratic put down is second to none. Despite dealing with such gloomy themes as death, heroin, and social humiliation, all three books mine a rich vein of dark humour, best evidenced in the in the funeral parlour scenes in Bad News. Edward St Aubyn has provided such a resonant portrayal of a certain breed of dissipated upper class indulgence that we are left wondering just how much first hand experience he has had of the social life which he depicts so mercilessly.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant just brilliant, 3 Jun 2008
By Mr. P. J. Plowman "jon plowman" (London, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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Whilst I agree that Patrick is not immediatly Mr Warmth or Mr Likeable the huge skill of the novel is to make us be with him and empathise with him through all three novels . I can think of little in the last five years that I have enjoyed reading more.
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