Our inaugural hello hello Book o’the Month is Edward St Aubyn’s finally-available-in-the-U.S. The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother’s Milk.
These four stand-alone novels have been published together in advance of the collection’s final installment, At Last, which was released just yesterday. I wasn’t familiar with St Aubyn until I read Zadie Smith’s marvelous August 2011 Harper’s essay on his work, which sent me running to buy used UK editions of the Melrose novels. (Quotes like “’ It’s the hardest addiction of all,’ said Patrick. ‘Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony” ramped up the anxious I-gotta-read-these feeling.) Dark though they are at times, I adored them, and the release of the collection along with the new book seemed timed perfectly with the launch of the hello hello brigade and the addition of the Book o’the Month pick, on which brigade members get a healthy 25% discount.
Here’s some jacket copy; come into the shop to dive in further…
“For more than twenty years, acclaimed author Edward St. Aubyn has chronicled the life of Patrick Melrose, painting an extraordinary portrait of the beleaguered and self-loathing world of privilege. This single volume collects the first four novels—-Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother’s Milk, a Man Booker finalist—-to coincide with the publication of At Last, the final installment of this unique novel cycle.”
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