Edward St. Aubyn: Bad News
Bad News
Buch
- Pan Macmillan, 04/2012
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781447202950
- Bestellnummer: 1600345
- Umfang: 256 Seiten
- Copyright-Jahr: 2012
- Gewicht: 205 g
- Maße: 201 x 131 mm
- Stärke: 22 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 12.4.2012
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Kurzbeschreibung
Twenty-two years old and in the grip of a massive addiction, Patrick Melrose is forced to fly to New York to collect his father's ashes. Over the course of a weekend, Patrick's remorseless search for drugs on the avenues of Manhattan, haunted by old acquaintances and insistent inner voices, sends him into a nightmarish spiral. Alone in his room at the Pierre Hotel, he pushes body and mind to the very edge - desperate always to stay one step ahead of his rapidly encroaching past.Klappentext
Bad News is the second of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick.Twenty-two years old and in the grip of a massive addiction, Patrick Melrose is forced to fly to New York to collect his father's ashes. Over the course of a weekend, Patrick's remorseless search for drugs on the avenues of Manhattan, haunted by old acquaintances and insistent inner voices, sends him into a nightmarish spiral. Alone in his room at the Pierre Hotel, he pushes body and mind to the very edge - desperate always to stay one step ahead of his rapidly encroaching past.
Bad News was originally published, along with Never Mind and Some Hope, as part of a three book omnibus also called Some Hope.
Biografie
Edward St Aubyn,1960 geboren, wuchs in England und Südfrankreich auf, studierte in Oxford und hat seit 1992 sechs Romane veröffentlicht. 2006 war er unter den Finalisten des renommierten Booker Prize. 2007 gewann er den Southbank Award in der Kategorie Literatur und den Prix Femina Étranger.![Edward St. Aubyn: Bad News, Buch](https://lesen.de/image/w468/front/0/9781447202950.jpg)
Edward St. Aubyn
Bad News
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