Be Near Me (eBook)

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2010 | 1. Auflage
287 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-26833-7 (ISBN)

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Be Near Me -  Andrew O'Hagan
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From the bestselling author of Mayflies and Caledonian Road ** Order Andrew O'Hagan's now novel Caledonian Road now ** 'There is no page on which there is not something surprising or quotable or pleasurable of thought-provoking.' Hilary Mantel 'One of the few truly essential works of fiction to emerge from this country during the past 20 years or more.' John Burnside, Daily Telegraph Longlisted for the Booker Prize, Be Near Me is a brilliantly moving story of art and politics, love and change, and the way we live now. 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 Father David's quiet life is the focus of public hysteria.

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.
From the bestselling author of Mayflies and Caledonian Road** Order Andrew O'Hagan's now novel Caledonian Road now **'There is no page on which there is not something surprising or quotable or pleasurable of thought-provoking.' Hilary Mantel'One of the few truly essential works of fiction to emerge from this country during the past 20 years or more.' John Burnside, Daily TelegraphLonglisted for the Booker Prize, Be Near Me is a brilliantly moving story of art and politics, love and change, and the way we live now. 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 Father David's quiet life is the focus of public hysteria.

O'Hagan can evoke the grittiness of working-class life.

Confirms O'Hagan's rank as one of the most accomplished authors writing in Britain ... His style is almost flawless: tone, nuance, the talent to surprise and the gift of capturing passing moments are all his, deployed effectively and, for the most part, with great taste.

A sensitive and poignant meditation on human isolation, Andrew O'Hagan's new novel is set in a small, forlorn community on Scotland's west coast ... First-rate writing and Chekhovian undertones capture a fractured society in which people are left without purpose, floundering in pools of their own isolation.

A generous, wonderfully observed novel, and the best O'Hagan has written yet; it is also one of the few truly essential works of fiction to emerge from this country during the past 20 years or more.

Literary heavyweights such as Joyce Carol Oates and Norman Mailer have heaped praise on this novel. With tremendous sensitivity the author explores complex religious and political themes while maintaining a humorous warmth for his characters. O'Hagan's style is both dazzling and lyrical and his cultural references never miss a beat. This is the work of a gifted novelist at the height of his powers and an insightful and poignant analysis of the human condition - and parts of British society in particular - in recent years.

One of the novels of the year.

Andrew O'Hagan writes beautifully ... he writes with conviction about the sectarianism of small-town western Scotland and the dispiriting character of a post-industrial working-class community ... a novel written with real generosity of spirit.

A work that portrays tragedy with such intelligence, tenderness and honesty ... There are no cliches in this book ... The language is precisely attuned to the circumstances, it is felt rather than imposed, so the story seems to be released by it instead of merely enabled, like a piece of music in the hands of a virtuoso musician. Time and again, unobtrusive phrases and rhythms elegantly conjure resonances: the children with their 'small energies of disdain' ...

Erscheint lt. Verlag 25.11.2010
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Schlagworte Booker Prize • Clergy • Douglas Stuart • mayflies • scandal • scottish novels • Shuggie Bain
ISBN-10 0-571-26833-1 / 0571268331
ISBN-13 978-0-571-26833-7 / 9780571268337
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