"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.
The New York Times - Stephen Metcalf
Two people alone in a room, conversing; it is the basis for everything good about life. If your inner daemon requires more by way of appeasement or flattery, you have something in common with David Anderton, the antihero of Andrew O'Hagan's superb new novel, Be Near Me. Two people alone in a room, conversinginadequate to you or to David Anderton, maybe, but not to O'Hagan, a youngish Glasgow-born novelist of astonishingly assured gifts. Quiet talk, a Bernini print on the mantle, the Clos Vougeot uncorked and breathing, is to O'Hagan what daffodils were to Wordsworth, that apparently arbitrary thing that calls forth the writer's voice, revealing the bias along which he may write as a true original.
Categories:
- Religion & Spirituality
- New Age & Spirituality
- Inspirational
- New Age & Spirituality
Publisher : Mariner Books
Author : O'Hagan, Andrew
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2008-04-14
Number Of Pages : 320
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0156033968
ISBN-13 : 9780156033961
Item weight : 0.5 lb
Dimensions : 0.9 in x 5.4 in x 8 in
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