BookQuoters
Dunbar Dunbar Edward St. Aubyn Get the book
Report a mistake
← Fiction

Dunbar

by Edward St. Aubyn · 2017

‘I really did have an empire, you know,’ said Dunbar. ‘Have I ever told you the story of how it was stolen from me?’ Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global corporation, is not having a good day. In his… more

7 quotes ★ 3.42 (3,273) Fiction

Quotes from the Book

Was this the triumph of self-knowledge: to suffer more lucidly?
9
I'll let you in on a little secret, Garry: everything is history. By the time you notice it, it's already happened. That famous imposter, "the present," disappears in the cognitive gap. Mind the gap!
5
The leafless trees, with their black branches stretched hysterically in every direction, looked to him like illustrations of a central nervous system racked by disease: studies of human suffering anatomized against the winter sky.
4
Why was he in this state? Or perhaps the question was why had he not always been in this state? Why had he not always found life so disturbing and so poignant?
2
Is there ever anything to get unduly worried about,' Peter couldn't help asking, 'when there are so many things to worry about duly?
2
There was no satisfaction in betraying people who had already defected.
1
The next thing that happened was that he forgot the last thing that happened.
1

Watch on YouTube

About Edward St. Aubyn

We have collected 56 quotes from 4 books by Edward St. Aubyn on BookQuoters.

More about the author →

More by Edward St. Aubyn

About the book

‘I really did have an empire, you know,’ said Dunbar. ‘Have I ever told you the story of how it was stolen from me?’

Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he handed over care of the family firm to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan. But relations quickly soured, leaving him doubting the wisdom of past decisions...

Now imprisoned in a care home in the Lake District 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

Book details

First published
2017
Genre
Fiction
Goodreads rating
3.42 (3k ratings)

The buzz

Dunbar Dunbar Edward St. Aubyn Get the book
2017·★ 3.42 (3k)
Report a mistake

Keep reading