Be Near Me
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"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 happiness—his 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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780151013036 |
Publisher: | HMH Books |
Imprint: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pub date: | 04 Jun 2007 |
Edition: | 1st US Edition |
DEWEY: | 823.914 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 305 |
Weight: | 449g |
Height: | 216mm |
Width: | 168mm |
Spine width: | 28mm |