At Last
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    Feb-2012 (Hardcover)
    Dec-2012 (Paperback)
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As readers of Edward St. Aubyn's extraordinary earlier works -- Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and the Man Booker Prize finalist Mother's Milk -- are well aware, for Patrick Melrose, "family" has always been a double-edged sword. At Last begins as friends, relatives, and foes trickle in to pay final respects to his mother, Eleanor. An Americam heiress, Eleanor married into the British aristocracy, giving up the grandeur of her upbringing for "good works" freely bestowed on everyone but her own son, who finds himself questioning whether his transition to a life without parents will indeed be the liberation he had so long imagined.

The service ends, and family and friends gather for a final party. Amid the social niceties and social horrors, Patrick begins to sense the prospect of release from the extremes of his childhood, and at the end of the day, alone in his room, the promise some form of safety. . . at last.
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    •  
    • Dec-2012
    • Picador
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1250023904
    • ISBN13: 9781250023902
    •  
    • May-2011
    • Pan Books (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0330533851
    • ISBN13: 9780330533850
    •  
    • Apr-2012
    • Pan Books (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0330435922
    • ISBN13: 9780330435925
    •  
    • Oct-2012
    • Pan Books (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1447227514
    • ISBN13: 9781447227519
    • First Edition
    • Feb-2012
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0374298890
    • ISBN13: 9780374298890
    •  
    • Feb-2012
    • Picador
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1250206561
    • ISBN13: 9781250206565
    •  
    • Feb-2012
    • Picador
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1743038526
    • ISBN13: 9781743038529
    •  
    • Feb-2012
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Feb-2012
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1466801484
    • ISBN13: 9781466801486
    •  
    • Dec-2013
    • Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd
    • Audible
    •  
    • Jul-2014
    • MacMillan Audio
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1427259194
    • ISBN13: 9781427259196



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