The Patrick Melrose Novels (3 books in series)
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review 1: Still padding my totals with these short novels. but I thought this volume was terrific. The whole novel is about a fancy party with Princess Margarett in attendance- who is invited, who is going with who, who talks to margarett, who is screwing who. Its a withering view of En...
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review 1: I don't know what I expected when I picked up St Aubyn's books but it certainly wasn't what they actually are so I had to put them down and let some time pass before I could come at them with the right frame of mind. St Aubyn's characters and situations are unspeakably sad. I am ...
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review 1: The third in the Melrose series is better than the second but not quite as perfect as the first. Patrick attends an early 90s aristocratic country party populated with more of the absolutely awful characters St Aubyn writes about so well. Very funny in parts though Patrick's endl...