{"product_id":"book-bagy","title":"At Last","description":"\u003cp\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of 2012 One of \u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Fiction Books 2011 One of \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of 2012 One of \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e's Top 10 Fiction Books of 2012 Here, from the writer described by \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e as \"our purest living prose stylist\" and whom Alan Hollinghurst has called \"the most brilliant English novelist of his generation,\" is a work of glittering social comedy, profound emotional truth, and acute verbal wit. \u003ci\u003eAt Last\u003c\/i\u003e is also the stunning culmination of one of the great fiction enterprises of the past two decades in the life of the English novel. As readers of Edward St. Aubyn's extraordinary earlier works—\u003ci\u003eNever Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, \u003c\/i\u003eand the Man Booker Prize finalist \u003ci\u003eMother's Milk—\u003c\/i\u003eare well aware, for Patrick Melrose, \"family\" has always been a double-edged sword. \u003ci\u003eAt Last\u003c\/i\u003e begins as friends, relatives, and foes trickle in to pay final respects to his 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, who finds himself questioning whether his transition to a life without parents will indeed be the liberation he had so long imagined. The service ends, and family and friends gather for a final party. Amid the social niceties and social horrors, Patrick begins to sense the prospect of release from the extremes of his childhood, and at the end of the day, alone in his room, the promise some form of safety. . . \u003ci\u003eat last\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49387847713072,"sku":"BDbagy","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [40]","offer_id":49387847844144,"sku":"40bagy","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/148846-bagy-Square.jpg?v=1735203717","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bagy","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}