At Last (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Acclaimed British novelist Edward St. Aubyn (Mother's Milk, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize) will read and sign his new novel At Last.
"Sparkling... With the wit of Wilde, the lightness of Wodehouse, and
the waspishness of Waugh, [St. Aubyn] wraps his fancy prose style
around the self in extremis ('suffocated, dropped, born of raped as well
as born to be raped"), situations more familiar to readers of Cooper or
Burroughs." --Zadie Smith, Harper's
"A miraculously wrought piece of art." --Suzi Feay, The Financial Times
"St.
Aubyn's technique is to crystallise emotional intensity into sentences
of arctic beauty, which can be caustically witty or brutal. His novels
are uncommonly well controlled, and thus their impact is all the more
powerful... In At Last this crystallisation and control are on
glittering display... We have reached the pinnacle of a series that has
plunged into darkness and risen towards light. At Last is both
resounding end and hopeful beginning." -- Philip Womack, The Telegraph
"Ferociously
funny, painfully acute and exhilaratingly written... Brimming with
witty flair, sardonic perceptiveness and literary finesse." --Peter Kemp, The Sunday Times
Edward St. Aubyn was born in London in 1960. He is the author of
A Clue to the Exit and On the Edge, and of a series of novels about the Melrose family, the trilogy
Some Hope and Mother’s Milk, which was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize.
Photo of the author by Timothy Allen.
