Be Near Me
by O'Hagan, Andrew
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- near fine/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0151013039
- ISBN 13
- 9780151013036
- Seller
-
Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
"Always trust a stranger," said David’s mother when he returned from Rome. "It’s the people you know who let you down." Half a life later, David is Father Anderton, a Catholic priest with a small parish in Scotland. He befriends Mark and Lisa, rebellious local teenagers who live in a world he barely understands. Their company stirs memories of earlier happinesshis days at a Catholic school in Yorkshire, the student revolt in 1960s Oxford, and a choice he once made in the orange groves of Rome. But their friendship also ignites the suspicions and smoldering hatred of a town that resents strangers, and brings Father David to a reckoning with the gathered tensions of past and present. In this masterfully written novel, Andrew O’Hagan explores the emotional and moral contradictions of religious life in a faithless age.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 63300
- Title
- Be Near Me
- Author
- O'Hagan, Andrew
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - near fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0151013039
- ISBN 13
- 9780151013036
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Orlando
- Date Published
- 2007-06-04
- LCCN
- 2006030402
- Keywords
- Fiction
Terms of Sale
Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
About the Seller
Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
About Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
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