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Be Near Me

Be Near Me

by Andrew O ' Hagan (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

    $10.06
Synopsis

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...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: Open Market Ed
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 01 Mar 2007
ISBN 10: 0571216056
ISBN 13: 9780571216055
Book Overview: Longlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize, a moving story of love, politics and the way we live now.

Media Reviews
'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
Author Bio
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.