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Some Hope, this installment in Edward St. Aubyn's wonderful, wry, and profound Patrick Melrose Cycle, is centered on a dinner party, attended by the illustrious and profane elite of British society. Patrick, who is now thirty and trying to recover from his addictions, considers becoming a lawyer, having spent most of his inheritance and in need of a job. Some Hope sees Patrick interacting with the contemptible but always fascinating British aristocracy again, and discovering that there might indeed be some hope for him after all.
Some Hope, this installment in Edward St. Aubyn's wonderful, wry, and profound Patrick Melrose Cycle, is centered on a dinner party, attended by the illustrious and profane elite of British society. Patrick, who is now thirty and trying to recover from his addictions, considers becoming a lawyer, having spent most of his inheritance and in need of a job. Some Hope sees Patrick interacting with the contemptible but always fascinating British aristocracy again, and discovering that there might indeed be some hope for him after all.
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Reviews
"The Melrose novels are a masterwork for the twenty-first century, written by one of the great prose stylists in England."
Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones on the Patrick Melrose Cycle
"When I read St. Aubyn I'm floored over and over again by the warmth and intelligence and eloquence of his work....Gorgeous, golden prose."
Lev Grossman, Time on the Patrick Melrose Cycle
"On every page of St. Aubyn's work is a sentence or a paragraph that prompts a laugh or a moment of enriched comprehension....Many of the scenes have a delicious, oysterish kind of edible comedy--they read smoothly and go down very easily, like something out of Anthony Powell."
James Wood, The New Yorker on the Patrick Melrose Cycle
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- SeriesPatrick Melrose #3