{"product_id":"at-last-the-final-patrick-melrose-novel-pb","title":"At Last The Final Patrick Melrose Novel PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Notable Book of the Year • One of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTIME\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e's Top 10 Fiction Books of the Year • Named One of the best books of the Year by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eEsquire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere, from the writer described by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e as \"our purest living prose stylist\" and whom Alan Hollinghurst has called \"the most brilliant English novelist of his generation,\" is a work of glittering social comedy, profound emotional truth, and acute verbal wit. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAt Last\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is also the stunning culmination of one of the great fiction enterprises of the past two decades in the life of the English novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs readers of Edward St. Aubyn's extraordinary earlier works―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNever Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand the Man Booker Prize finalist \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMother's Milk―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eare well aware, for Patrick Melrose, \"family\" has always been a double-edged sword. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAt Last\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e begins as friends, relatives, and foes trickle in to pay final respects to his mother, Eleanor. An American heiress, Eleanor married into the British aristocracy, giving up the grandeur of her upbringing for \"good works\" freely bestowed on everyone but her own son, who finds himself questioning whether his transition to a life without parents will indeed be the liberation he had so long imagined. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe service ends, and family and friends gather for a final party. Amid the social niceties and social horrors, Patrick begins to sense the prospect of release from the extremes of his childhood, and at the end of the day, alone in his room, the promise some form of safety...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eat last\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51746917712103,"sku":null,"price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/3397\/3991\/files\/51aSMn9Cj9L.webp?v=1769384681","url":"https:\/\/friendsmvl.org\/products\/at-last-the-final-patrick-melrose-novel-pb","provider":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}