At Last: A Novel

A New York Times Book Review Editors ChoiceFriends, relatives, and foes trickle in to pay final respects to Patrick Melroses mother, Eleanor. An American heiress, Eleanor married into the British aristocracy, giving up the grandeur of her upbringing for 'good works' freely bestowed on everyone but her own son. Amid the social niceties and social horrors, Patrick anticipates his release from the extremes of his childhoodand wonders if it will be the liberation he has so long imagined. At Last is the stunning culmination of the Patrick Melrose novels, one of the great literary enterprises of the past two decades. In the words of Alice Sebold, these novels are 'a masterwork for the twenty-first century.'

Softcover. English. Picador. 2012. ISBN: 9781250023902. 272 pp. Good. Book No: 55835