Be Near Me

Informationen zum Autor Andrew O'Hagan is one of his generation's most exciting and serious chroniclers of contemporary Britain. He has been nominated for the Man Booker Prize three times and was voted one of Granta 's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003. He has won the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Klappentext 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. 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: &apos, Andrew Hagan, O&apos, Andrew O'Hagan, Andrew O''hagan, O'Hagan Andrew
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.04.2007
• EAN: 9780571216048
• ISBN: 978-0-571-21604-8
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, Clergy; Scandal, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary