In my review of Peter Heller’s THE PAINTER, I discussed being troubled by someone saying that writing is not art. Edward St. Aubyn takes this further in his new book LOST FOR WORDS. In it, I believe he offers one of the best defining quotes for art’s purpose: “to arrest our attention in the midst of...
If you've ever wondered what became of the Dedlocks of Chesney Wold you need look no further than this quartet of novels by Edward St. Aubyn. According to him, they changed their name to Melrose and fled to the South of France. We first meet Patrick Melrose as a lad of five in Never Mind. Poor Patri...
A perfect coda to the quintet. On the day of his mother's funeral - when Patrick is, at last, freed from the physical realities of his parents and the life that came before... he realizes that perhaps it takes more than just their absence to be truly free. The remaining (surviving?) cast of charac...
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