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.