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Some Hope: A Trilogy (Paperback)

by Edward St Aubyn (Author)
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The Globe and Mail, June 19, 2004

"Like all great works, and I think this is a great one Some Hope: A Trilogy is wonderfully suggestive and as playful as it is serious."

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5.0 out of 5 stars Literary Artwork, Jul 13 2004
By Charles J. Rector (Woodstock, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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Some Hope by Edward St. Aubyn is a trilogy of novellas about the cruel and sadistic British aristocrat David Melrose. In some ways, the book is really about son Patrick Melrose who suffers at the hands of both his perverse father and his drug-addicted mother.

The first novella is literally saturated with examples of the evility of David Melrose and the sufferings of his family at his hands. In the second novella, son Patrick trudges through the harrowing New York City scene mingling with all those lowly commoners called Americans. The third novella concerns Patrick's experimenting with various and sundry illegal drugs.

This trilogy of novellas shows how being raised by twisted parents
leads to the children becoming equally twisted adults themselves. This is a most unusual and excellent work of literary art.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Difficult Read, Mar 25 2004
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Difficult read, in the best sense of the phrase. Characters drip with egotism. Prose is spare, unforgiving, and surprisingly unjaded at times. Written by a professional. Why write such a thing? Is this what teaches us to live? It teaches us what it us to live. Like looking at the question of evil from a religious perspective, only this seems purely secular. Does it have lasting value? At least a few hours, so far. I think that's enough to recommend very highly.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Aristocrats Behaving Badly, Feb 19 2004
By revilo456 "revilo456" (Hoboken, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
This fascinating but harrowing volume comprises three novellas about Patrick Melrose - as a young boy at his parents' French villa, as a drug-addled young man on the loose in Manhattan, and as sober guest at a British country-house party in honor of Princess Margaret. In economical and blackly humorous prose, St. Aubyn fleshes out a memorable cast of characters. The stand-out is Patrick's monstrous father, who practices snobbism, sarcasm, sadism, and worse crimes. These books are so brief that some characters remain ciphers (particularly Patrick's girlfriends). And the author's decision to abandon the protagonist's mother after the first book is a serious flaw. But the dialogue St. Aubyn puts in Princess Margaret's mouth is worth the price of admission. The situation the author sets up at the end involving the princess, the French ambassador, and a splash of venison sauce crystallizes the book's themes with great humor. On the whole, deeply rewarding if you have a strong stomach.
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