At Last (18 page)

Mother’s Milk

Some Hope

A Clue to the Exit

On the Edge

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Copyright © 2011 by Edward St. Aubyn
All rights reserved
Originally published in 2011 by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, Great Britain
Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Grateful acknowledgement is made for permission to reprint excerpts from the following:
‘Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)’, words and music by Bart Howard. TRO –©– Copyright 1954 (renewed) by Hampshire House Publishing Corp., New York, NY. Used by permission.
‘I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’, words and music by George Gershwin, Du Bose Heyward and Ira Gershwin. Copyright © 1935 (renewed) by Chappell & Co., Inc. (ASCAP). All rights administered by Warner/ Chappell North America Ltd.
Excerpt from ‘Burnt Norton’, Part I of
Four Quartets
by T. S. Eliot, copyright © 1936 by Harcourt, Inc., and renewed © 1964 by T. S. Eliot, reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
‘Dutch Graves in Bucks County’ from
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
by Wallace Stevens, copyright © 1954 by Wallace Stevens and renewed © 1982 by Holly Stevens. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

St. Aubyn, Edward, 1960–

At last / Edward St. Aubyn.—1st American ed.

p. cm.

ISBN: 978-1-4668-0148-6

1. Psychological fiction. 2. Domestic fiction. I. Title.

PR6069.T134 A93 2012

823'.914—dc23

2011034964

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