At Last: The Final Patrick Melrose Novel The Patrick Melrose Novels, 5 Paperback Edward St. Aubyn

from TheAmpersand

Edward St. Aubyn's Patrick Melrose series is basically the literary equivalent of the "7-Up" films for horrible wealthy -- or at least formerly wealthy --people, so readers who've already bored their way through the preceding four acidly entertaining volumes will know exactly what to expect. Patr...

from lauralkeet

The five Patrick Melrose Novels are semi-autobiographical works beginning with Never Mind (1992) and ending with At Last (2012). I read the first four back-to-back and was impressed, but overwhelmed by some of the themes. It's taken me two years to get to At Last, but I'm glad I did. The entire n...

from arjacobson

At Last: A Novel by Edward St. Aubyn (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2011. 266pp) Originally posted at wherepenmeetspaper.blogspot.com Edward St. Aubyn is a British author and journalist. Educated at Westminster school and Keble College at Oxford University, he is the author of five novels on the Me...

from hazelk

What I enjoyed most about this novel was the author's unblinking and satirical view of the assorted upper-crust assembled for the funeral of Eleanor, Patrick Melrose's mother. There was some very sharp writing, some of its withering and some of it very comic.

from nivramkoorb

At Last is the final book in the Patrick Melrose series and this is one fine writer. You might not like the characters or the constant introspection but there is no denying the satirical skill of the author. If you like great prose and a detailed observation of the British upper class then you wi...