- Title:
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Be Near Me
- Written by:
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Andrew O'Hagan
- Read by:
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Jerome Pride
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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8
- Duration:
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8 hours 48 minutes
- Published:
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January 01 2007
- Available Date:
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January 01 2007
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781741636239
- Genres:
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Fiction; British Fiction; Literary Fiction; Psychological Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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International bestseller
Winner AudioFile Earphones Award 2007
Longlisted The Man Booker Prize 2006
“This is a nuanced, intense and complex treatment of a sad and simple story. Read it twice.”
The Guardian
"Magnificent… his talent is comparable to Muriel Spark’s, and he is kinder.”
The Times
"Be Near Me is an elegy, a love story, a document of an era, beautifully imagined and composed."
Joyce Carol Oates
By the Booker Prize shortlisted author.
In a small Scottish parish, an English priest is stalked by the fear of scandal, class hatred and lost ideals. Over the spring and summer of 2003, Father David becomes friends with two young people, Mark and Lisa: by the year's end his life is the focus of public hysteria. As he looks back to his childhood and to Oxford in the fever of student revolt, Father David begins to reconsider the central events of his life, and to see what may have happened to the political hopes of his generation. Meanwhile, religious warfare breaks out on his doorstep.
"Be Near Me is elegant, wise and affecting."
The Age
"A story of art and politics, love and change, and a book about the way we live now. Trapped in class hatreds, threatened by personal flaws, Father David begins to discover what happened to the ideals of his generation, whilst a religious war is unfolding on his doorstep."
The Guardian
"Jerome Pride works magic in this performance. He simply vanishes. In his place, fully formed, are pub-lounging locals 'blighted by unemployment', parish clergymen desperate to avoid yet another church abuse scandal, and Father Anderton himself, seeking, longing, trying to understand his actions. Deep, age-old fears and resentments boil to the surface, the town becomes a mob, and Pride sweeps listeners up in Anderton's trial and its aftermath. An incredible book. An amazing performance."
AudioFile Magazine
"As if it is not enough that Andrew O'Hagan can write like an angel, one has to add that he does it in the rare style of an intelligent angel. What a fine novel is Be Near Me."
Norman Mailer