Bad News: Patrick Melrose Novels # 2

Author: Edward St. Aubyn

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  • : 9781447202950
  • : Pan Macmillan
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  • : April 2012
  • : 197mm X 130mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 19.99
  • : July 2012
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  • : The\Patrick Melrose Novels Ser.
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  • : English
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Description

Bad News is the second of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick.Twenty-two years old and in the grip of a massive addiction, Patrick Melrose is forced to fly to New York to collect his father's ashes. Over the course of a weekend, Patrick's remorseless search for drugs on the avenues of Manhattan, haunted by old acquaintances and insistent inner voices, sends him into a nightmarish spiral. Alone in his room at the Pierre Hotel, he pushes body and mind to the very edge - desperate always to stay one step ahead of his rapidly encroaching past.Bad News was originally published, along with Never Mind and Some Hope, as part of a three book omnibus also called Some Hope.

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THE SECOND PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL

Reviews

'The Melrose novels are remarkable ferociously funny, painfully acute and exhilaratingly written. A brilliantly controlled story of a life sent out of control' - Peter Kemp, Sunday Times 'A beautifully written novel, whose harrowing but fiercely funny portrait of addiction is the best I've ever read' - Time Out 'St Aubyn conveys the chaos of emotion, the confusion of heightened sensation, and the daunting contradictions of intellectual endeavour with a force and subtlety that have an exhilarating, almost therapeutic effect' - Francis Wyndham, New York Review of Books 'Our purest living prose stylist' - Guardian

Author description

Edward St Aubyn was born in London in 1960. His superbly acclaimed Melrose novels are Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope (previously published collectively as the Some Hope trilogy), Mother's Milk (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006) and At Last. He is also the author of the novels A Clue to the Exit and On the Edge.