NEVER MIND
Book ID/图书代码： 00200014B69866
English Summary/英文概要： THE FIRST PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL.
At his mother’s family house in the south of France, Patrick Melrose has the run of a magical garden. Bravely imaginative and self-sufficient, five-year-old Patrick encounters the volatile lives of adults with care. His father, David, rules with considered cruelty, and Eleanor, his mother, has retreated into drink. They are expecting guests for dinner. But this afternoon is unlike the chain of summer days before, and the shocking events that precede the guests’ arrival tear Patrick’s world in two.
This title was originally published, along with Bad News and Some Hope, as part of a 3-book package, also called Some Hope.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在帕特里克•梅尔罗斯系列的第一部故事中，五岁的故事主人公帕特里克过着反复无常的成人生活。他的父亲常以暴力来解决问题，母亲自己却麻醉于酒精之中。全家人在为即将到来的客人准备晚餐。但这不是往常的夏日午后，而随着客人的到来，一起可怕的事件将会把帕特里克的世界一分为二。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：Winner of the Betty Trask Award, Never Mind is the first in Edward St Aubyn’s highly acclaimed Patrick Melrose novels.
‘The Melrose sequence is now clearly one of the major achievements of contemporary British fiction. Stingingly well-written and exhilaratingly funny’ David Sexton, Evening Standard
’Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation’ Alan Hollinghurst
review/news piece in the Evening Standard: http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/prize-fighter-edward-st-aubyn-takes-revenge-on-the-literary-world-with-new-satire-9286694.html
profile in the Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/05/the-disillusionist/359809/
news piece in the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/28/edward-st-aubyn-literary-revenge
review in the Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/lost-for-words-by-edward-st-aubyn-book-review-this-novel-about-the-man-booker-prize-is-close-to-the-bone-9314102.html
review in the Spectator: http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/9195031/biting-back
review in the Financial Times: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/05adda58-ceca-11e3-8e62-00144feabdc0.html#axzz30aI2tq1I
profile in the Telegraph Magazine: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/10800965/How-writing-helped-Edward-St-Aubyn-exorcise-his-demons.html
review/news piece in the Sunday Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookprizes/10805576/A-spurned-writers-taboo-busting-riposte.html
Teddy did a very good interview on Friday on Radio 4 Front Row (about 15 mins in): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b041yr90
About the Author/作者介绍： 爱德华•圣•奥比恩，1960年出生于伦敦。曾在威斯敏斯特学校，基布尔学院，牛津大学受过教育。他著有六部小说，最近的一部‘母乳’，曾入围2006年度布克奖，并夺得2007年度的费米娜外国小说奖和南岸地区文学奖。
其1992年发表的首部小说‘没关系’曾获得贝蒂特拉斯克文学奖。在该系列三部曲的之后的两部小说‘坏消息’和‘一丝希望’如今被出版社重新包装，以‘一丝希望’为名再度发表。
爱德华在1998年和2000年分别发表的另两部小说‘边缘’和‘出路的线索’曾入围卫报小说奖。
Edward St Aubyn was born in London in 1960. His superbly acclaimed Melrose novels are Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope (previously published collectively as the Some Hope trilogy), Mother’s Milk (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006) and At Last. He is also the author of the novels A Clue to the Exit and On the Edge.
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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：SOLD
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE
Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：The sales so far for all 5 novels in the Melrose series are as follows:
UK: Picador; US: Picador; Brazil: Companhia das Letras; Denmark: Gads; France: Bourgois; Germany: Piper; Holland: Prometheus; Hungary: Libri; Italy: Neri Pozza; Norway: Gyldendal; Poland: Foksal; Spain: Anagrama; Sweden: Bonniers; Turkey: Can Yayinlari
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