Be Near Me - Softcover

O'Hagan, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156033968 ISBN 13: 9780156033961

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2008

Synopsis

"Always trust a stranger," said David's mother when he returned from Rome. "It's the people you know who let you down."Half a life later, David is Father Anderton, a Catholic priest with a small parish in Scotland. He befriends Mark and Lisa, rebellious local teenagers who live in a world he barely understands. Their company stirs memories of earlier happiness--his days at a Catholic school in Yorkshire, the student revolt in 1960s Oxford, and a choice he once made in the orange groves of Rome. But their friendship also ignites the suspicions and smoldering hatred of a town that resents strangers, and brings Father David to a reckoning with the gathered tensions of past and present.In this masterfully written novel, Andrew O'Hagan explores the emotional and moral contradictions of religious life in a faithless age.

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Review:

PRAISE FOR BE NEAR ME

"[A] beautiful, astute novel. Grade: A-."--Entertainment Weekly

"[O'Hagan is a] novelist of astonishingly assured gifts."--The New York Times Book Review

Book Description:

Longlisted for the Booker Prize, Andrew O'Hagan's Be Near Me is a brilliantly moving story of art and politics, love and change, and the way we live now.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0156033968
• ISBN 13: 9780156033961
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320