"I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT ONE SHOULD HAVE THE WIDEST POSSIBLE RANGE OF ACQUAINTANCES, FROM MONARCHS RIGHT DOWN TO THE HUMBLEST BARONET IN THE LAND": ST. AUBYN'S SOME HOPE, THIRD OF THE PATRICK MELROSE NOVELS

ST. AUBYN, Edward. Some Hope. London: Heinemann, (1994). Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. $950.

First edition of the third installment in St. Aubyn's renowned five-book series of Patrick Melrose novels.

"Edward St. Aubyn's five Patrick Melrose novels—published beginning in 1992 and collected, to lavish praise, in 2012—owe their popularity to the way they cross genres to satisfy two distinct cravings. St. Aubyn does a reasonably good rendition of a classic style of British social satire, withering and mock-grotesque, for those who pine for the early works of Evelyn Waugh and Kingsley Amis… But he puts it in service of a more contemporary form, the recovery story, tracing Patrick's life from horrific abuse as a child to unbridled addiction… to tenuously sober, emotionally fragile adulthood. Neither side of the equation would necessarily be notable on its own, but the combination clicks" (New York Times, May 10, 2018). The "Patrick Melrose" novels were adapted into a Showtime series, titled Patrick Melrose, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the title character.

Fine condition.