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Title
Dunbar / Edward St. Aubyn.
Edition
First United States edition.
ISBN
9781101904282 (hardcover)
1101904283 (hardcover)
9781101904305
1101904305
9781101904299 (electronic book)
1101904283 (hardcover)
9781101904305
1101904305
9781101904299 (electronic book)
Published
London ; New York : Hogarth, [2017]
Language
English
Description
244 pages ; 22 cm.
Call Number
PR6069.T134 D86 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.914
Summary
Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he hands over care of the corporation to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan, but as relations sour he starts to doubt the wisdom of past decisions. Now imprisoned in Meadowmeade, an upscale sanatorium in rural England, with only a demented alcoholic comedian as company, Dunbar starts planning his escape. As he flees into the hills, his family is hot on his heels. But who will find him first, his beloved youngest daughter, Florence, or the tigresses Abby and Megan, so keen to divest him of his estate? Edward St Aubyn is renowned for his masterwork, the five Melrose novels, which dissect with savage and beautiful precision the agonies of family life. His take on King Lear, Shakespeare's most devastating family story, is an excoriating novel for and of our times an examination of power, money and the value of forgiveness.
Series
Hogarth Shakespeare.
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