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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 details

• Full title: Be Near Me
• Author: Andrew O'Hagan
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 305
• EAN: 9780156033961
• ISBN: 0156033968
• ID: 11345454
• Publisher: Harvest Books
• Weight: 290 g
• Dimensions: 204 × 146 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: April 2008

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