Parallel Lines
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Beschrijving
I love Edward St Aubyn
I love Edward St Aubyn
Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation
A compassionate book
… St Aubyn can express things you always knew but had never had the words for
St Aubyn’s writing is as astute as ever.
A coincidence-driven comedy of errors… Glinting with hard-won wisdom lightly worn
The Patrick Melrose author brings his
trademark dark wit and flinty compassion
to this wide-ranging sequel… St Aubyn is
clear-sighted and humane
on the basic requirement of life: ‘Compassion is just love in the face of suffering and love does not run out with use – it grows stronger’
It is a novel rich in characters and perspectives…
The story whips along… All the while,
Parallel Lines
is building towards a showdown that threatens to break its characters and their values
. It doesn’t disappoint
A state-of-the-nation novel
that brilliantly uses the conventions of farce, satire and social critique to evoke a nation drifting indifferently into chaos… St Aubyn’s portrait of the family and its sharp-edged sketches of various institutions of British life are often
very, very funny and always penetrating
; but they are also at times moving, especially when they relate to mental health… [
Parallel Lines
] has
formal verve and political vitality
St Aubyn remains a
terrific
writer… [
Parallel Lines
] is
genuinely affecting
A tale of analysis, art and family dysfunction
… In a novel brimming with wordplay, Sebastian’s eagerness to make meaningful connections is
affecting
Parallel Lines
is entertaining, tidily put together and…
sparklingly well written
Edward St Aubyn
was born in London. His internationally acclaimed Patrick Melrose novels are
Never Mind
,
Bad News
,
Some Hope
,
Mother’s Milk
(winner of the Prix Femina étranger and shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and
At Last
. The series was made into a BAFTA award-winning Sky Atlantic TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role. St Aubyn is also the author of
A Clue to the Exit
,
On the Edge
(shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize),
Lost for Words
(winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize),
Dunbar
and
Double Blind
.