Our Fathers
by Andrew O'Hagan
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0571195024
- ISBN 13
- 9780571195022
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About This Item
Andrew O'Hagan has written a story which is a poignant and powerful reclamation of the past and a clear-sighted gaze at our relationship with history. Our Fathers is a beautiful and profound book which announced O'Hagan as a novelist of great distinction.
Synopsis
Hugh Bawn was a modern hero, a dreamer, a Socialist, a man of the people who revolutionized Scotland's residential development after World War II. Now he lies dying on the eighteenth floor of one of the flats he built, flats that are being demolished along with the idealism he inherited from his mother. Hugh's final months are plagued by memory and loss, by bitter feelings about his family and the country that could not live up to the housing constructed for it. His grandson, Jamie, comes home to watch over his dying mentor and sees in the man and in the land that bred him his own fears. He tells the story of his family-a tale 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. Andrew O'Hagan's story is a poignant and powerful reclamation of the past and a clear-sighted look at our relationship with personal and public history. Our Fathers announces the arrival of a major writer.
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- Bookseller
- Ivy Court Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 72
- Title
- Our Fathers
- Author
- Andrew O'Hagan
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0571195024
- ISBN 13
- 9780571195022
- Publisher
- Faber Faber Inc
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1999
- Pages
- 282