Parallel Lines (Signed First Edition)

St. Aubyn, Edward

ISBN 10: 0593535340 / ISBN 13: 9780593535349

Published by Knopf, New York, 2025

About this Item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2025. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Red paper-covered boards with silver spine lettering. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. Publisher s original price intact on jacket flap ($28.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean, unread copy with no faults. Octavo, 266 pages. One of an unknown number of copies signed by the author on a special blank page bound in by the publisher. A novel by the author of the acclaimed "Patrick Melrose" series. Parallel Lines explores fate, coincidence, and identity in the lives of two men whose paths intersect in unexpected and devastating ways. St. Aubyn is the recipient of the Prix Femina étranger and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novel "Mother s Milk." "Parallel Lines" marks his first book published by Knopf in the United States.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1752198478383

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Parallel Lines (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593535340
• ISBN 13: 9780593535349
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • British and Irish Literature

About this title

Synopsis

From the bestselling and award-winning author of the Patrick Melrose novels, a hilarious and moving story about a group of wildly different characters whose fates are improbably yet inextricably linked—a novel about extinction and survival, inheritance and loss, written with St. Aubyn’s trademark wit and inimitable style

It’s the summer, and Sebastian is in treatment following a breakdown that has left him grappling with his fragile grip on reality and his persistent hunger to connect with the biological mother who abandoned him as a child. His therapist, Martin, is facing challenges of his own, including his adopted daughter’s tenuous relationship with her own biological mother—a predicament that makes Sebastian’s struggle feel uncannily proximate to her own. Olivia is producing a radio series on catastrophic natural disasters, which itself seems to be running parallel to the events unfolding in her personal life, as her best friend, Lucy, faces a grave diagnosis, and her husband, Francis, pursues his mission of re-wilding the world. Over the course of the next year their fates collide in outrageous and poignant ways, as each of their destinies is revealed in a marvelous new light.

With characteristic brilliance and humor, Parallel Lines investigates themes of dualism, determinism, connection, and love. St. Aubyn captures the life of the spirit as vibrantly as the life of the mind, in a novel that wrestles with moral and psychic anguish and the cascading consequences of our choices at every stage of life. A thrilling, wholly captivating novel from one of the most gifted writers at work today.

About the Author

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 Étranger and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize), and At Last. The series was made into a BAFTA Award–winning Sky Atlantic TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch. 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.