BAD NEWS
Book ID/图书代码： 00200014B69867
English Summary/英文概要： THE SECOND PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL.
Twenty-two years old and in the grip of a massive addiction, Patrick Melrose is forced to fly to New York to collect his father’s ashes. Over the course of a weekend, Patrick’s remorseless search for drugs on the avenues of Manhattan, haunted by old acquaintances and insistent inner voices, sends him into a nightmarish spiral. Alone in his room at the Pierre Hotel, he pushes body and mind to the very edge – desperate always to stay one step ahead of his rapidly encroaching past.
This title was originally published, along with Never Mind and Some Hope, as part of a 3-book package, also called Some Hope.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 帕特里克•梅尔罗斯系列的第二部故事场景设置在令人炫目的奢华而又肮脏的纽约城中，这部三部曲中的故事中的人物命运虽然不济，但主人公沉醉于毒品的形象却又时常散发着让人冷峻不禁的笑料。本书是曾获得贝蒂特拉斯克文学奖《没关系》的续篇。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：’I’ve loved Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels. Read them all, now’ David Nicholls
‘Our purest living prose stylist’ Guardian
‘St Aubyn conveys the chaos of emotion, the confusion of heightened sensation, and the daunting contradictions of intellectual endeavour with a force and subtlety that have an exhilarating, almost therapeutic effect’ Francis Wyndham, New York Review of Books
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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