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Mother's Milk
Edward St. Aubyn
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Belletristik / Gegenwartsliteratur (ab 1945)
Beschreibung
"e;[An] elegant and witty satire on the dissatisfactions of family life . . . told in a fresh, acerbic way."e; -Publishers Weekly, starred reviewNow a five-part Showtime series Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe DannerMan 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 and another on the way.The novel shifts points of view from Patrick-furious over his mother's decision to sell their mansion in the South of France to a ridiculous New Age hippie-to Patrick's wife, overburdened by motherhood, to Patrick's mother, growing senile and despondent, and even to Patrick's young son Robert, who reflects with hilarious and disturbing clarity on the moments of his birth."e;Vividly captures how the family members' roles shift with the birth of the second son and the deterioration of Patrick's mother."e; -The New YorkerPraise for the Patrick Melrose series"e;A masterwork for the twenty-first century."e; -Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones"e;Gorgeous, golden prose."e; -Lev Grossman, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Magician"e;On every page of St. Aubyn's work is a sentence or a paragraph that prompts a laugh, or a moment of enriched comprehension."e; -James Wood, The New Yorker"e;A portrait of a man that feels more alive and true than nearly any I can think of in literature."e; -Ann Patchett, The Guardian"e;Brilliant."e; -Bret Easton Ellis"e;Intoxicatingly witty."e; -The New York Review of Books
