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Be near me when my light is low,
When the blood creeps, and nerves prick
And tingle; and the heart is sick,
And all the wheels of Being slow.
from In Memoriam A.H.H
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
When an English priest takes over a small Scottish parish, not everyone is ready to accept him. He makes friends with two local youths, Mark and Lisa, and clashes with a world he can barely understand. The town seems to grow darker each night. Fate comes calling and before the summer is out his quiet life is the focus of public hysteria.
Father David looks back to find a Lancashire childhood. He remembers a lost father and a grand school for Catholic boys. He finds 1960s Oxford in the heat of student revolt and recalls a choice he once made in the orange groves of Rome.
Be Near Me is a story of art and politics, love and change, and a book about the way we live now. Trapped in class hatreds, threatened by personal flaws, Father David begins to discover what happened to the ideals of his generation. Meanwhile a religious war is unfolding on his doorstep...
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'A sensitive and poignant mediation on human isolation ... first-rate writing.' -- Daily Mail
'A work that portrays tragedy with such intelligence, tenerness and honesty.' -- Literary Review
'O'Hagan is devastatingly amusing ... Be Near Me establishes O'Hagan as one of our most sympathetic prose-poets.' -- The Times
'a superb novel ... a masterpiece of characterisation ... a generous, wonderfully observed novel, and the best O'Hagan has written yet' -- Telegraph
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'A work that portrays tragedy with such intelligence, tenerness and honesty.' -- Literary Review
'O'Hagan is devastatingly amusing ... Be Near Me establishes O'Hagan as one of our most sympathetic prose-poets.' -- The Times
'a superb novel ... a masterpiece of characterisation ... a generous, wonderfully observed novel, and the best O'Hagan has written yet' -- Telegraph
Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan is a story of art and politics, love and change, and a book about the way we live now, from the acclaimed author of Our Fathers and The Missing.
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0571216021
- ISBN 13 9780571216024
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages288
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