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Our Fathers

Our Fathers

by Andrew O ' Hagan (Author)

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    Paperback 2004

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Synopsis

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Our Fathers is a powerful reclamation of the past from one of Britain's most accomplished literary novelists. Hugh Bawn, modern Scottish hero and legendary social reformer, lies dying in one of the high-rise tower blocks he helped establish. His grandson Jamie comes home to watch over him, and it is Jamie who tells the story of their family, of three generations of pride and delusion, of nationality and strong drink, of Catholic faith and the end of the old left. It is a tale of dark hearts and modern houses - of three men in search of Utopia.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 06 May 2004
ISBN 10: 0571201067
ISBN 13: 9780571201068
Book Overview: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Andrew O'Hagan's Our Fathers is a powerful reclamation of the past from one of Britain's most accomplished literary novelists.
 Prizes: Shortlisted for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2001 and Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2000 and Booker Prize for Fiction 1999 and Whitbread Book Awards: First Novel Category 1999 and Whitbread Prize (First Novel) 1999.

Media Reviews
A beautiful, elegiac work . . . required reading for everybody. -- Ian Rankin, Evening Standard (U.K.) O'Hagan offers a deeply moving meditation on losses, both personal and historical, and on the tide of time through generations. -- Kirkus Reviews A timely corrective to the idea that nothing profound can be said about now. -- Will Self, Observer (U.K.) The most auspicious debut by a British writer for some time. -- The Independent (U.K.)
Author Bio
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. His most recent novel is The Illuminations (2015).