Edward St Aubyn, Author . Open City $23 (240p) ISBN 978-1-890447-40-3
This elegant and witty satire on the dissatisfactions of family life, which continues the story of Patrick Melrose, the hero of St. Aubyn's U.S. debut (Some Hope
), opens in August 2000 at Patrick's mother's home in the south of France,...
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Edward St. Aubyn. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-330-43590-1
Eleanor Melrose has died, and her son Patrick is attending her memorial service at the opening of this brilliant, introspective, and witty novel from St. Aubyn, the fifth, and presumably final, in the autobiographical series (after Mother’s Milk...
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Edward S. Aubyn. Picador, $22 (688p) ISBN 978-0-312-42996-6
Coinciding with the publication of At Last, this omnibus edition shows that St. Aubyn’s five Patrick Melrose novels may well constitute one of the most ambitious novel cycles since Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time. Where Powell wrote...
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Edward St. Aubyn. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-28029-1
The latest from St. Aubyn (the Patrick Melrose novels) marks a departure from his previous work. This comedic novel chronicles a year in the life of the Elysium Prize, a fictional Booker-like British literary award. The Elysium is mired in scandal...
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Edward St. Aubyn. Picador, $16 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-250-04601-7
New Agers beware! St. Aubyn’s take on the search for enlightenment as a cure for modern malaise is razor sharp and maniacally clever. The novel focuses on a handful of self-proclaimed spiritual evolvers: Adam, the gay guru who frequently changes...
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Edward St. Aubyn. Picador, $16 (240p) ISBN 978-1-250-04603-1
Linguistic legerdemain enlivens this short, sharp, often funny, occasionally moving novel about a British screenwriter who, when told he has six months to live, sets about writing a novel. Best known for the movie Aliens with a Human Heart, Charlie...
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Edward St. Aubyn. Random/Hogarth, $25 (256p) ISBN 978-1-101-90428-2
In St. Aubyn’s retelling of King Lear, Canadian media mogul Henry Dunbar finds himself drugged and imprisoned in a sanatorium somewhere in deepest, darkest Cumbria by his two pernicious elder daughters and their sycophantic celebrity doctor. The...
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