Dunbar by Edward St Aubyn - ISBN: 9781784701697
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Power, betrayal, and escape: a king’s tragicomic fall from grace.

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  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    2 July 2018

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Summary

Comedy and tragedy converge in this tale of high finance and brutal family betrayal, from ‘The most brilliant English novelist of his generation’ Alan Hollinghurst

From the author of the Patrick Melrose novels, now a major Sky Atlantic television series starring Benedict Cumberbatch

Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he handed over care of the corporation to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan. B…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781784701697
ISBN-10:1784701696
Author:Edward St Aubyn
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:2 July 2018
Weight:196g
Dimensions:196mm x 129mm x 17mm
Series:Hogarth Shakespeare
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Critics Review

St Aubyn has a natural talent for keeping you on the edge of your seat… His prose has an easy charm that masks a ferocious, searching intellect

St Aubyn has a natural talent for keeping you on the edge of your seat… His prose has an easy charm that masks a ferocious, searching intellect * The Times *
Malevolently enjoyable… A fable of fatherly neglect and daughterly cruelty * Financial Times *
Deeply affecting…and funny * Observer *
Powerful… Entertaining * Spectator *

About The Author

Edward St Aubyn

Edward St Aubyn was born in London. His internationally acclaimed Patrick Melrose novels are Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother’s Milk (winner of the Prix Femina etranger and shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and At Last. The series was made into a BAFTA award-winning Sky Atlantic TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role. St Aubyn is also the author of A Clue to the Exit, On the Edge (shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize), Lost for Words (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Dunbar and Double Blind.

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