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Patrick Melrose: The Novels Audiobook
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COLLECTED INTO ONE VOLUME FOR THE FIRST TIME, ALL FIVE INSTALLMENTS OF EDWARD ST. AUBYN'S CELEBRATED PATRICK MELROSE NOVELS Now a 5-Part Limited Event Series on Showtime, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner. Edward St. Aubyn has penned one of the most acclaimed series of the decade with the Patrick Melrose Novels. Now you can read all five novels in one volume: Never Mind, Bad News, Mother's Milk, Some Hope, and At Last. By turns harrowing and hilarious, this ambitious novel cycle dissects the English upper class. Edward St. Aubyn offers his reader the often darkly funny and self-loathing world of privilege as we follow Patrick Melrose's story of abuse, addiction, and recovery from the age of five into early middle age. The Patrick Melrose Novels are "a memorable tour de force" (The New York Times Book Review) by one of "the most brilliant English novelists of his generation" (Alan Hollinghurst). Praise for Patrick Melrose: The Novels: "...at its best audio offers a complementary or overlapping experience to the actual book. For example Alex Jennings’s readings of the Patrick Melrose novels by Edward St Aubyn are sublime, a sustained performance that also allows the prose to breathe in its own right. And really funny." — The Guardian, quoting author Andy Miller
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“Alex Jennings gives us Patrick’s inner life plus an amazing range of the people he shares it with across decades, from Provençe to New York…In this great gallery of international voices, Jennings conveys class, age, wit, foolishness, snobbery, innocence, vanity, kindness, and vice with breathtaking nuance. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“Stunning, sparkling fiction…Unforgettable.”
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“A memorable tour de force.”
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“One of the most amazing reading experiences I’ve had in a decade.”
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“One of the best fictional cycles in contemporary fiction.”
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“Stunning, sparkling fiction . . . Unforgettable.
— The Wall Street Journal -
One of the most amazing reading experiences I've had in a decade.
— Michael Chabon, Los Angeles Times -
One of the best fictional cycles in contemporary fiction.
— The Boston Globe
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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About Edward St. Aubyn
Edward St. Aubyn was born in London. His acclaimed Patrick Melrose novels include Mother’s Milk, winner of the Prix Femina étranger and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The series was made into a BAFTA Award–winning Sky Atlantic TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch. he is also the author of On the Edge, shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize; Lost for Words, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize; and Dunbar, his reimagining of King Lear for the Hogarth Shakespeare project.
About Alex Jennings
Alex Jennings is an award-winning narrator and actor of stage and screen. He has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre. He is also known for his role as Edward VIII, the Duke of Windsor, in the Netflix series The Crown, along with his roles in The Queen, Lady in the Van, and The Wings of the Dove. He is a three-time Olivier Award winner and has been nominated for a BAFTA.