Be Near Me

Andrew O'Hagan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2007 | Open Market - Airside ed
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-21605-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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. Meanwhile a religious war is unfolding on his doorstep...

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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. Meanwhile a religious war is unfolding on his doorstep...

Autor

Andrew O'Hagan was born in Glasgow in 1968. His first book, The Missing, was published in 1995 and shortlisted for the Esquire/Waterstone's/Apple Non-Fiction Award. Our Fathers, his debut novel, was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize. His second novel, Personality, was published in 2003 and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. In January of that year Granta named him one of the Best of Young British Novelists and in April he received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He lives in London.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2007
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 111 x 177 mm
• Gewicht: 184 g
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0-571-21605-6 / 0571216056
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-21605-5 / 9780571216055
• Zustand: Neuware