Some Hope
A
Trilogy by Edward St. Aubyn (http://www.opencity.org/staubyn.html)
Some Hope marks the U.S. debut of Edward St.
Aubyn, highly acclaimed in the U.K. as one of the most original, intelligent,
and acerbically witty voices of our time. From Provence to New York to
Gloucestershire, through the savageries of a childhood with a tyrannical father
and an alcoholic mother, to a young adulthood fraught with drug addiction, we
follow Patrick MelroseÕs search for redemption amidst a crowd of glittering social
dragonflies whose vapidity is the subject of his most stinging and memorable
barbs. A story of abuse, addiction, and recovery, the trilogy is a haunting yet
hilarious depiction of a journey to and from the farthest limits of the human
experience