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Some Hope, the third installment in Edward St. Aubyn's wonderful, wry, and profound Patrick Melrose Cycle, is centered on a dinner party, attended by the illustrious and profane elite of British society.
Patrick, who is now…
Why read it?
1 author picked Some Hope as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Because it’s twisted, tragic, and hilarious.
This book is written from the point of view of a high-class Brit with alcohol and drug addiction problems who has made a complete, disastrous mess of his life. He reveals the familial dysfunction that has led him to his present state in such an offhand, almost careless way that he somehow manages to make a childhood that includes being sexually abused by his father, as well as other horrors, humorous.
His narrative voice felt to me like a 21st-century version of Kingsley Amis. Somehow, as he takes you on his journey of awful…
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