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Mother's Milk

A Novel

By Edward St. Aubyn

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| Paperback | 9781890447427

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Writing with the scathing wit and bright perceptiveness for which he has become known, celebrated English author Edward St. Aubyn creates a complex family portrait that examines the shifting allegiances between mothers, sons, and husbands. The novel's perspective ricochets among all members of the MContinue

Writing with the scathing wit and bright perceptiveness for which he has become known, celebrated English author Edward St. Aubyn creates a complex family portrait that examines the shifting allegiances between mothers, sons, and husbands. The novel's perspective ricochets among all members of the Melrose family -- the family featured in St. Aubyn's widely praised trilogy, Some Hope -- starting with Robert, who provides an exceptionally droll and convincing account of being born; to Patrick, a hilariously churlish husband who has been sexually abandoned by his wife in favor of his sons; to Mary, who's consumed by her children and overwhelming desire not to repeat the mistakes of her own mother. All the while, St. Aubyn examines the web of false promises that entangle this once illustrious family -- whose last vestige of wealth, an old house in the south of France -- is about to be donated by Patrick's mother to a New Age foundation. An up-to-the-minute dissection of the mores of child-rearing, marriage, adultery, and assisted suicide, Mother's Milk showcases St. Aubyn's luminous and acidic prose -- and his masterful ability to combine the most excruciating emotional pain with the driest comedy.

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  • The sins of the father

    Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn Picador £12.99, pp279 Before I meet Edward St Aubyn, I swot up on him. Here are a few of the things that I read: that he wears too-tight tweed suits and green velvet smoking jackets; that he is facetious, arrogant and ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Parental advisory

    Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn 279pp, Picador, £12.99 Mother's Milk is a sequel to Some Hope, St Aubyn's 1990s trilogy, which presents the Melrose family in all its pathetic and venomous decadence. In Some Hope, the father, David, is a doctor who a ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 240 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 1890447420
  • ISBN-13: 9781890447427
  • Publisher: Grove Press, Open City Books
  • Pub date: Nov 09, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and eBook
  • In other languages: other languages Libri Italiani
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