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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In the second novel in the series, Patrick Melrose battles with his drug addiction over a hallucinatory weekend in New York.
'I've loved Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels. Read them all, now' David Nicholls
THE SECOND PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL
The bestselling Patrick Melrose Novels by Man Booker Prize shortlisted Edward St Aubyn, are acclaimed for their searing wit and their deep humanity. In this magnificent cycle we see Patrick Melrose battle to survive the savageries of his childhood and lead a self-determined life while overcoming heroin addiction, alcoholism and marital infidelity. Themes of self-destruction and self-repair, are mingled with poetic drama and razor-sharp satire in this spectacularly moving and entertaining series. Featuring the novels Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother's Milk, and At Last, the Patrick Melrose novels are widely regarded as one of the major achievements in English fiction, with New York Times describing them as 'some of the most perceptive, elegantly written and hilarious novels of our era'.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781447202950
Publisert
2012-04-12
Utgiver
Vendor
Picador
Vekt
180 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
131 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256

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Biographical note

Edward St Aubyn's superbly acclaimed Melrose novels are Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, 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, On the Edge, Lost for Words and Dunbar.