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Be near Me

Be near Me( )
Author: O'Hagan, Andrew
Read by: Pride, Jerome
ISBN:978-1-74214-036-0
Publication Date:Oct 2008
Publisher:Bolinda Publishing Pty, Limited
Book Format:CD-Extra
List Price:USD $43.95
Book Description:

Longlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize.

The eagerly anticipated third novel from Andrew O'Hagan, one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2003 and author of the Booker-shortlisted Our Fathers and Personality.

In a small Scottish parish, an English priest is stalked by the fear of scandal, class hatred and lost ideals.

Over the Spring and Summer of 2003, Father David becomes friends with two young people, Mark and Lisa: by the year's end his life is the focus...
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Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.616 x 5.421 Inches
Book Weight:1.1 Pounds
Author Biography
O'Hagan, Andrew (Author)
Andrew O'Hagan was born in 1968 in Glasgow, Scotland. He studied at the University of Strathclyde. He is an Editor at Large for Esquire, London Review of Books and Critic at Large for T: The New York Times Style Magazine. He is a creative writing fellow at King's College London. He has worked as an editor and ghostwriter.

He has twice been nominated for the Man Booker Prize. He 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, made Honorary Doctor of Letters by University of Strathclyde in 2008, and was made Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010. His book awards include the 2000 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize for Our Fathers, the 2003 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (fiction), for Personality, and the 2010 Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award for Writing.

His fiction includes Our Fathers, Personality, Be Near Me, The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe, The Illuminations. His non-fiction includes The Missing and The Atlantic Ocean. He also has written short stories and book reviews.

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