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Investigating "the history of absence", this work focuses on the phenomenon of disappearing persons. Asking how it is possible for people to simply disappear, the book looks at real cases known to the author and concludes with an account of the missing persons killed in the Wests of Gloucester.
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The Missing by Andrew O'Hagan: 'The Missing, part autobiography, part old-fashioned pavement-pounding, marks the most auspicious debut by a British writer for some time.' Gordon Burn, Independent
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The Missing is a fascinating literary meditation on missing persons by the acclaimed young Scottish writer Andrew O'Hagan. Writing with what one reviewer praised as "passion, eloquence, and honesty", O'Hagan explores one of society's most enduring, yet unexamined, concerns - missing persons. He writes movingly of his own grandfather, lost at sea during World War II; of Sandy Davidson, the three-year-old who disappeared from a construction site near O'Hagan's childhood home; of James Bulger, the toddler abducted from a mall in Liverpool and murdered by two ten-year-olds in 1993; and the twelve young women Fred and Rosemary West murdered and buried in their Gloucester backyard over a period of nearly thirty years. In all of these cases, O'Hagan goes out with police and meets with social workers and families, always looking for the deeper truths so often left forgotten. What kind of lives did those who have gone missing lead? What made them disappear? What happens to those left behind?
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0330341375
- ISBN 13 9780330341370
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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