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      Bad News

      by Edward St. Aubyn
      Published
      Nov 1997
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      Literary Literary
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      680
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      Patrick Melrose Book 2

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      Now a 5-Part Limited Event Series on Showtime, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner

      In Bad News, the second installment in Edward St. Aubyn's wonderful, wry and profound series, the Patrick Melrose Cycle, Patrick, now in his twenties, is traveling to New York to collect the ashes of his recently deceased father.

      Deep in the grasp of a crippling drug addiction, he spends most of his time searching for a fix, alternately suffering from withdrawals, hallucinations, and anguish over his tyrannical father's death. Written in unflinching, breathtakingly resonant prose, St. Aubyn paints another haunting landscape of human suffering.

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      Book 2
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      General Fiction

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      Literary

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      Nov 1997 Random House (UK) ISBN 0749398728
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      Sep 2013 Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd ISBN B00EPMZSLK
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