Edward St Aubyn: 21 books

De literaire kritiek in Engeland is het over één ding eens: Edward St Aubyn is een van de grootste schrijvers van het Engelse taalgebied. Naarmate hij meer publiceert, raken steeds meer lezers gegrepen door zijn elegante en tegelijk bijtend geestige proza. Zijn autobiografische Melrose-romans worden...

Een van de grote literaire sensaties van de afgelopen twintig jaar, zo mogen de Patrick Melrose-romans van Edward St Aubyn wel worden genoemd. Het eerste deel verscheen al in 1992, maar pas bij de verschijning van het vierde deel, veertien jaar later, kwam St Aubyns internationale doorbraak. En hoe....

NOW COLLECTED INTO ONE VOLUME FOR THE FIRST TIME, ALL FIVE INSTALLMENTS OF EDWARD ST. AUBYN'S CELEBRATED PATRICK MELROSE NOVELS Soon to be a Showtime TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner Edward St. Aubyn has penned one of the most acclaimed series of the decade with...

Il ciclo narrativo contenuto in queste pagine ha destato enorme scalpore nei paesi in cui è apparso. Edward St Aubyn, rampollo di un’antica e nobile famiglia che «viveva in Cornovaglia fin dai tempi della conquista normanna» (Guardian), è stato accostato dalla critica britannica e statunitense...

Edward St. Aubyn is "great at dissecting an entire social world" (Michael Chabon, Los Angeles Times) Edward St. Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels were some of the most celebrated works of fiction of the past decade. Ecstatic praise came from a wide range of admirers, from literary superstars...

A beautifully modulated novel that shows Edward St. Aubyn at his sparkling best Charlie Fairburn, successful screenwriter, ex-husband, and absent father, has been given six months to live. He resolves to stake half his fortune on a couple of turns of the roulette wheel and, to his agent's disgust,...

Sono i giorni dell’Elysian Prize a Londra, e l’intera società letteraria del Commonwealth è in fermento. Benché sia confinato al mucchio di ceneri imperiali di un’istituzione cara forse soltanto alla Regina, il Premio è uno dei riconoscimenti più ambiti negli illustri salotti letterari...

Now a 5-Part Limited Event Series on Showtime, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner Never Mind, the first installment in Edward St. Aubyn's wonderful, wry, and profound Patrick Melrose Cycle, follows five-year-old Patrick through a single day, as the Melrose family awaits the arrival...

FROM THE MAN BOOKER–SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE PATRICK MELROSE NOVELS Called "the most brilliant novelist of his generation" (Alan Hollinghurst), Edward St. Aubyn captivated and astonished readers and critics alike with his mesmerizing quintet, the Patrick Melrose novels. Its publication...

Now a 5-Part Limited Event Series on Showtime, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner In Bad News, the second installment in Edward St. Aubyn's wonderful, wry and profound series, the Patrick Melrose Cycle, Patrick, now in his twenties, is traveling to New York to collect the ashes...

A reimagining of one of Shakespeare's most well-read tragedies, by the contemporary, critically acclaimed master of domestic drama Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he hands over care of the corporation to his two...

Now a 5-Part Limited Event Series on Showtime, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner Man Booker–shortlisted Mother's Milk, the fourth installment in Edward St. Aubyn's wonderful, wry, and profound Patrick Melrose Cycle, sees Patrick as a lawyer, married, with a five-year-old child...

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

Now a 5-Part Limited Event Series on Showtime, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner A New York Times Notable Book of the Year • One of TIME's Top 10 Fiction Books of the Year • Named One of the best books of the Year by The Telegraph and Esquire Here, from the writer described...