Description
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'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.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Andrew O'Hagan's Our Fathers is a powerful reclamation of the past from one of Britain's most accomplished literary novelists.
About the Author
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.
Awards
Short-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2001 and Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2000 and Booker Prize for Fiction 1999 and Whitbread Book Awards: First Novel Category 1999 and Whitbread Prize (First Novel) 1999.
Book Information
ISBN 9780571201068
Author Andrew O'Hagan
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publisher Faber & Faber
Weight(grams) 193g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 127mm * 17mm