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At last

St. Aubyn, Edward, 1960-

Overview

For Patrick Melrose, 'family' is more than a double-edged sword. As friends, relations and foes trickle in to pay final respects to his mother, Eleanor, an heiress who forsook the grandeur of her upbringing for 'good works', freely bestowed upon everyone but her own child, Patrick finds that his transition to orphanhood isn't necessarily the liberation he had so long imagined. Yet as the service ends and the family gather for a final party, as conversations are overheard, danced around and concertedly avoided, amidst the social niceties and the social horrors, the calms and the rapids, Patrick begins to sense a new current. And at the end of the day, alone in his rooftop bedsit, it seems to promise some form of safety, at last.

• Publisher: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Subject: Americans Great Britain Fiction. / Funeral rites and ceremonies Fiction. / Adult children Fiction. / Parents Death Fiction. / Families Fiction. / Adult children. / Americans. / Domestic fiction. / Families. / Funeral rites and ceremonies. / Parents Death. / Psychological fiction. / Great Britain.
• ISBN: 9781250023902, 1250023904

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR6069.T134 A93 2013	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE