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082	0	0	_aFIC STA _222
100	1		_aSt. Aubyn, Edward, _d1960-
245	1	0	_aMother's milk : _ba novel / _cEdward St. Aubyn
260			_aLondon : _bPicador, _cc2006
300			_a278 p. ; _c20 cm
490			_aPatrick Melrose #4
520			_aThe novel’s perspective ricochets among all members of the Melrose family - the family featured in St. Aubyn’s widely praised trilogy, Some Hope - starting with Robert, who provides an exceptionally droll and convincing account of being born; to Patrick, a hilariously churlish husband who has been sexually abandoned by his wife in favor of his sons; to Mary, who’s consumed by her children and overwhelming desire not to repeat the mistakes of her own mother. All the while, St. Aubyn examines the web of false promises that entangle this once illustrious family - whose last vestige of wealth, an old house in the south of France - is about to be donated by Patrick’s mother to a New Age foundation. An up-to-the-minute dissection of the mores of child-rearing, marriage, adultery, and assisted suicide, Mother’s Milk showcases St. Aubyn’s luminous and acidic prose - and his ability to combine the most excruciating emotional pain with the driest comedy.
546			_aEnglish
586			_aShortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize
650		0	_aParent and adult child _vFiction
650		0	_aMarital conflict _vFiction
650		0	_aNew Age movement _vFiction
650		0	_aMothers and sons _vFiction
650		0	_aDisinheritance _vFiction
650		0	_aMotherhood _vFiction
651		0	_aEngland _vFiction
655		7	_aPsychological fiction _2lcsh
655		7	_aDomestic fiction _2lcsh
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