Bastards
James Wood: St Aubyn’s Savage Sentences, 2 November 2006
“... sand.’ The novel is not without flaws. A note of male self-pity creeps in here and there, as in Michel Houellebecq’s fiction: it is tiresome to be told yet again about the dreadful ache men feel in their forties because hot young girls are no longer interested in them. (But at least St Aubyn, unlike ... ”