Patrick Melrose by Edward St. Aubyn audiobook

Patrick Melrose: The Novels

By Edward St. Aubyn
Read by Alex Jennings

Macmillan Audio 9781250069603

The Patrick Melrose Series: Book 1

27.00 Hours Unabridged
Format : Digital Download (In Stock)
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    ISBN: 9781427265555

COLLECTED INTO ONE VOLUME FOR THE FIRST TIME, ALL FIVE INSTALLMENTS OF EDWARD ST. AUBYN'S CELEBRATED PATRICK MELROSE NOVELS Now a 5-Part Limited Event Series on Showtime, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner. Edward St. Aubyn has penned one of the most acclaimed series of the decade with the Patrick Melrose Novels. Now you can read all five novels in one volume: Never Mind, Bad News, Mother's Milk, Some Hope, and At Last. By turns harrowing and hilarious, this ambitious novel cycle dissects the English upper class. Edward St. Aubyn offers his reader the often darkly funny and self-loathing world of privilege as we follow Patrick Melrose's story of abuse, addiction, and recovery from the age of five into early middle age. The Patrick Melrose Novels are "a memorable tour de force" (The New York Times Book Review) by one of "the most brilliant English novelists of his generation" (Alan Hollinghurst). Praise for Patrick Melrose: The Novels: "...at its best audio offers a complementary or overlapping experience to the actual book. For example Alex Jennings’s readings of the Patrick Melrose novels by Edward St Aubyn are sublime, a sustained performance that also allows the prose to breathe in its own right. And really funny." — The Guardian, quoting author Andy Miller

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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award

COLLECTED INTO ONE VOLUME FOR THE FIRST TIME, ALL FIVE INSTALLMENTS OF EDWARD ST. AUBYN'S CELEBRATED PATRICK MELROSE NOVELS

Now a 5-Part Limited Event Series on Showtime, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner.

Edward St. Aubyn has penned one of the most acclaimed series of the decade with the Patrick Melrose Novels. Now you can read all five novels in one volume: Never Mind, Bad News, Mother's Milk, Some Hope, and At Last.

By turns harrowing and hilarious, this ambitious novel cycle dissects the English upper class. Edward St. Aubyn offers his reader the often darkly funny and self-loathing world of privilege as we follow Patrick Melrose's story of abuse, addiction, and recovery from the age of five into early middle age.

The Patrick Melrose Novels are "a memorable tour de force" (The New York Times Book Review) by one of "the most brilliant English novelists of his generation" (Alan Hollinghurst).

Praise for Patrick Melrose: The Novels:

"...at its best audio offers a complementary or overlapping experience to the actual book. For example Alex Jennings’s readings of the Patrick Melrose novels by Edward St Aubyn are sublime, a sustained performance that also allows the prose to breathe in its own right. And really funny." — The Guardian, quoting author Andy Miller

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Stunning, sparkling fiction…Unforgettable.” Wall Street Journal
“A memorable tour de force.” New York Times Book Review
“One of the most amazing reading experiences I’ve had in a decade.” Los Angeles Times
“One of the best fictional cycles in contemporary fiction.” Boston Globe
“Alex Jennings gives us Patrick’s inner life plus an amazing range of the people he shares it with across decades, from Provençe to New York…In this great gallery of international voices, Jennings conveys class, age, wit, foolishness, snobbery, innocence, vanity, kindness, and vice with breathtaking nuance. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.” AudioFile
“Stunning, sparkling fiction . . . Unforgettable. The Wall Street Journal
One of the most amazing reading experiences I've had in a decade. Michael Chabon, Los Angeles Times
One of the best fictional cycles in contemporary fiction. The Boston Globe

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Author

Author Bio: Edward St. Aubyn

Author Bio: Edward St. Aubyn

Edward St. Aubyn is the London-born author of ten fiction novels, with five in the acclaimed Patrick Melrose series, including Mother’s Milk, winner of the Prix Femina étranger and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The series was made into a BAFTA Award–winning Sky Atlantic TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch. He also wrote five stand-alone novels, including On the Edge, shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize, and Lost for Words, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize.

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Available Formats : Digital Download
Category: Fiction/Literary
Runtime: 27.00
Audience: Adult
Language: English