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Our Fathers :From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Caledonian Road
Our Fathers :From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Caledonian Road
paperback
Published:
6 May, 2004
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Description
'A beautiful, elegiac work . . . This should be required reading for everybody.' Ian Rankin
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Our Fathers is a powerful reclamation of the past from one of Britain's most accomplished literary novelists.
Hugh Bawn, modern Scottish hero and legendary social reformer, lies dying in one of the high-rise tower blocks he helped establish. His grandson Jamie comes home to watch over him, and it is Jamie who tells the story of their family, of three generations of pride and delusion, of nationality and strong drink, of Catholic faith and the end of the old left. It is a tale of dark hearts and modern houses - of three men in search of Utopia.
Prizes
Short-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2001,Short-listed for Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2000,Short-listed for Booker Prize for Fiction 1999,Short-listed for Whitbread Book Awards: First Novel Category 1999,Short-listed for Whitbread Prize (First Novel) 1999
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780571201068 |
| ISBN10 | 0571201067 |
| Number Of Pages | 304 |
| Item Weight | 193 g |
| Product Dimensions | 127 x 197 x 17 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Faber & Faber |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | Main - Re-issue |
Media Reviews
A beautiful, elegiac work . . . required reading for everybody. -- Ian Rankin, Evening Standard (U.K.) O'Hagan offers a deeply moving meditation on losses, both personal and historical, and on the tide of time through generations. -- Kirkus Reviews A timely corrective to the idea that nothing profound can be said about now. -- Will Self, Observer (U.K.) The most auspicious debut by a British writer for some time. -- The Independent (U.K.)
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Author's Bio
Andrew O'Hagan was born in Glasgow. He has been nominated for the Booker Prize, was voted one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003, and won the E. M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is Editor-at-Large of the London Review of Books and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.