Some Hope Edward St. Aubyn Open City Press, New York, 2003 Although the original novellas that make up this book first came out in Britain in 1992 and 1994, this 2003 collection is the American debut of Edward St. Aubyn. The collection came out in the U.K. in 1998 under the title The Patrick Melrose [...]
At Last Edward St. Aubyn Picador, London, 2011 At Last is the brilliant culmination of St. Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose series consisting of Bad News, Never Mind, Some Hope, and Mother’s Milk. Another darkly comic story of privilege and the double-edged sword of family relations, At Last was longlisted for the Booker Prize. Many fans of [...]
Mother’s Milk Edward St. Aubyn Open City Press, New York, 2005 Mother’s Milk was a finalist for the 2006 Booker Prize. It continues the story of Patrick Melrose, the protagonist from St. Aubyn’s trilogy Some Hope, although only loosely. It is a scathing and witty look at the shifting allegiances within a modern British family struggling [...]
Never Mind Edward St. Aubyn Heinemann, U.K. 1992 There is virtually no information on the web about this edition of the debut novella by British author Edward St. Aubyn. Added to his later stories Bad News and Some Hope, the semi-autobiographical trilogy was later published under a couple of different titles. The best known version [...]
The Patrick Melrose Trilogy Edward St. Aubyn Vintage, U.K. 1998 This harrowing, yet often laugh-out-loud funny trilogy is probably better known in North America as Some Hope, put out by Open City Books in New York in 2003. The Patrick Melrose Trilogy however, was the first time St. Aubyn’s three novellas, Never Mind, Bad News, and [...]
Bad News Edward St. Aubyn Mandarin, London, 1994 Bad News is the first part of a trilogy by St. Aubyn. The three stories were originally published separately, and later the complete trilogy was published under the title The Patrick Melrose Trilogy. Later still, the U.S. edition of the trilogy was renamed Some Hope. It gets even more [...]
Mother’s Milk Edward St. Aubyn Picador, U.K. 2006 St. Aubyn loosely continues the story of Patrick Melrose from his trilogy best known as Some Hope. In Mother’s Milk St. Aubyn tackles the issues of shifting family loyalties and assisted suicide. According to their copyright pages, the U.S. Open City publication (which I featured in a [...]
A Clue to the Exit Edward St. Aubyn Chatto and Windus, U.K. 2000 Alan Hollinghurst calls St. Aubyn, “Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation.” According to the Guardian newspaper, the authentic ground of being is what Henry James called a clue to the exit from the human maze. St. Aubyn is a [...]
Bad News Edward St. Aubyn Heinemann, U.K. 1992 This second novella by St. Aubyn is a sequel to his earlier novella, Never Mind, and together with Some Hope, published two years later, would make up the trilogy called the Patrick Melrose Trilogy. In 2003, the trilogy would be renamed Some Hope for the U.S. market, [...]