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Olivia is a talented geneticist with a personal stake in her field. She thinks deeply about who she is and why -- more deeply than many, perhaps, because her parents, both respected psychoanalysts, adopted her as a baby. The fate of her twin birth-brother is unknown. When Olivia meets Francis, a young naturalist rewilding a corner of Sussex, and is reunited with her best friend Lucy, recently returned from a high-flying career in New York, her...

Literarische Liebesgeschichte und sardonischer Gesellschaftsroman Mit ihrem neuen Geliebten Francis und der Ankunft ihrer engsten Freundin Lucy in London erweitert sich Olivias Horizont schlagartig. Vor allem die Beziehung zu Francis, einem leidenschaftlichen Umweltaktivisten, der fernab der Metropole in Sussex lebt, erfasst sie mit verwirrender Wucht. Bevor sie noch die beiden miteinander bekanntmachen kann, erhält Lucy eine bestürzende Na...

From the author of the internationally acclaimed Patrick Melrose books: a major new novel exploring some of the biggest ideas and most pressing questions of our times. 'The experience of St Aubyn is indelible' Jonathan Franzen Double Blind follows three close friends and their circle through a year of extraordinary transformation. Set between London, Cap d'Antibes, Big Sur and a rewilded corner of Sussex, this thrilling, ambitious novel is as ...

From the author of the internationally acclaimed Patrick Melrose books: a major new novel exploring some of the biggest ideas and most pressing questions of our times. 'The experience of St Aubyn is indelible' Jonathan Franzen Double Blind follows three close friends and their circle through a year of extraordinary transformation. Set between London, Cap d'Antibes, Big Sur and a rewilded corner of Sussex, this thrilling, ambitious novel is as ...

A dramatic and powerful reflection on nature, nurture, inquiry, perception, and the myriad ways we try to understand what it means to be alive.Double Blind is the masterful new novel from Edward St. Aubyn: an ambitious, thrilling synthesis of art, science, and philosophy that explores some of the biggest ideas and most pressing questions of our times. Following three friends and their circle through a year of transformation, and moving between...

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Aile yakinlari, akrabalar ve düsmanlar annesini son yolculuguna ugurlamak icin toplandiginda, Patrick Melrose ebeveynsiz bir yasamin hep hayalini kurdugu özgürlügü getirip getirmeyecegini düsünmektedir. Ancak defin töreninin ardindan aile fertlerinin son bir kez bir araya geldigi, sosyal acidan hassasiyetler ve korkularla dolu bulusmada, birbirini izleyen sessizlik ve gürültülerin arasinda, Patrick en sonunda yeni bir akintinin, yeni bir tür s...

Anne Sütünde, bir zamanlarin sanli ve varsil Melrose ailesi artik zor durumdadir. Patrick tutulmayan sözler, ailevi sorumluluklar ve bir intihar girisiminin yol actigi sorunlarla bogusmaktadir. Ailenin diger fertleri de iyi durumda degildir, esi Mary, annelik görevlerinin yükü altinda günbegün yipranirken Patrickin annesi kendini adamakilli bir yeni cag cemiyetine kaptirmis, kücük ogul Robert ise, yasina ragmen cevresinde olan bitenleri kavray...

Patrick Melrose roman dizisinin ikinci kitabi Kötü Haberde, yirmi iki yasinda, ileri derecede uyusturucu bagimlisi olan Patrick, babasinin küllerini teslim almak icin New Yorka ucmak zorunda kalir. Hafta sonu icin geldigi bu sehrin sokaklarinda uyusturucu pesinde kosarken bir yandan da önüne cikan tanidiklarin, yakasini birakmayan icseslerin, hatta halüsinasyonlarin neden oldugu karabasanli bir sarmalin icine sürüklenir. Sonunda bedensel ve zi...

Patrick Melrose roman dizisinin ilki Unut Gitsinde, soylu bir ailenin cocugu olan Patrick, yazlari kaldiklari Güney Fransadaki aile evinde günlerini bahcede kosup oynayarak gecirir. Ancak akilli ve duyarli kücük Patrickin etrafindaki yetiskinler pek de dengeli degildirler. Babasi David aileyi zorbaca yönetirken annesi Eleanor ickiye siginmistir. Aksam yemeginde konuk agirlayacaklari bir gün yazin diger günlerinden oldukca farkli olacaktir. Zir...

Patrick Melrose roman dizisinin ücüncü kitabi Biraz Umutta, uyusturucu bagimliligindan kurtulmus, ancak otuzlu yaslarinda olmasina karsin yasam yorgunu olan Patrick, toplumsal statüsünün dayattigi kimliginden kurtulma arayisindadir. Arinmak ve affetme yetisi kazanmak icin cevresindeki acimasizliklari dikkatle gözlemleyen Patrick, sivri zekasi, yeni edindigi hayata acikligi ve en uc deneyimleri tecrübe etmenin verdigi güvenle, cocuklugunda yasa...

Il ciclo narrativo contenuto in queste pagine, composto da cinque romanzi, ha destato enorme scalpore nei paesi in cui è apparso. Edward St Aubyn è stato accostato dalla critica britannica e statunitense a Evelyn Waugh, Oscar Wilde e ad altri grandi scrittori della letteratura anglosassone. Tuttavia, come ha notato la New York Book Review, nei Melrose è all'opera una contemporaneità, «un'aristocratica atmosfera di caustico orrore» mai percepit...

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Sei mesi di vita. Sei mesi soltanto in questo mondo per Charlie Fairburn, sceneggiatore cinematografico di "Alieni dal cuore umano", film visto da ben cinquantatré milioni di persone. Quando ha pronunciato la sentenza, il medico ha abbozzato un sorriso pieno di indulgenza, poi, con la sua costosa penna nera, ha prescritto il palliativo: prozac. Nessuna pillola, iniezione, nessun libro consolatorio o colloquio con qualche cappellano militare po...

Collected into one volume for the first time, all five installments of Edward St. Aubyn's celebrated Patrick Melrose novelsNow an Emmy® award nominated 5-part limited event series on Showtime, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe DannerEdward 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...

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‘Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation’ Alan HollinghurstThe once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril, and Patrick Melrose, now a husband and father, is trying to gather together the pieces of his life. Caught up in the turmoil of broken promises, assisted suicide, adultery and – most tender and terrifying of all – fatherhood, Patrick is still a long way from salvation, but even as the family struggles again...

‘Remarkable – ferociously funny, painfully acute and exhilaratingly written’ Sunday TimesMoving from Provence to New York to Gloucestershire, from the savageries of a childhood with a cruel father and an alcoholic mother to an adulthood fraught with addiction, Patrick Melrose is on a mission to escape himself. But the drugs don’t make him forget his past, and the glittering parties offer him no redemption . . . Searingly funny and deeply human...

L'intera società letteraria del Commonwealth è in fermento. A Londra si svolge l'Elysian Prize, uno dei riconoscimenti più ambiti negli illustri salotti letterari britannici, in quelli altrettanto nobili di Edimburgo e tra i notabili di Nuova Delhi. Sponsorizzato dalla Elysian, un'industria agricola che annovera tra i suoi prodotti alcuni degli erbicidi e dei pesticidi più devastanti sulla faccia della terra, il Premio ha nel suo consiglio d'a...