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Be Near Meby Andrew O'HaganISBN 0156033968 (0-15-603396-8)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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- Be Near Me: ISBN 057121603X (0-571-21603-X)
Softcover, Faber & Faber, Limited - Be Near Me: ISBN 0571216048 (0-571-21604-8)
Softcover, Faber & Faber, Limited - Be Near Me: ISBN 0571216056 (0-571-21605-6)
Softcover, Faber & Faber, Limited - Be Near Me: ISBN 0151013039 (0-15-101303-9)
Hardcover, Harcourt - Be Near Me: ISBN 0571216021 (0-571-21602-1)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber - Be Near Me: ISBN 0156033968 (0-15-603396-8)
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- Be Near Me: ISBN 057121603X (0-571-21603-X)
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Go Tell It on the Mountainby James Baldwin, Andrew O'HaganISBN 0141185910 (0-14-118591-0)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Go Tell It on the Mountain'Book summary:First published in 1953 when James Baldwin was nearly 30, Go Tell It on the Mountain is a young man's novel, as tightly coiled as a new spring, yet tempered by a maturing man's confidence and empathy. It's not a long book, and its action spans but a single day--yet the author packs in enough emotion, detail, and intimate revelation to make his story feel like a mid-20th-century epic. Using as a frame the spiritual and moral awakening of 14-year-old John Grimes during a Saturday night service in a Harlem storefront church, Baldwin lays bare the secrets of a tormented black family during the depression. John's parents, praying beside him, both wrestle with the ghosts of their sinful pasts--Gabriel, a preacher of towering hypocrisy, fathered an illegitimate child during his first marriage down South and refused to recognize his doomed bastard son; Elizabeth fell in love with a charming, free-spirited young man, followed him to New York, became pregnant with his son, and lost him before she could reveal her condition.
Baldwin lays down the terrible symmetries of these two blighted lives as the ironic context for John's dark night of the soul. When day dawns, John believes himself saved, but his creator makes it clear that this salvation arises as much from blindness as revelation: "He was filled with a joy, a joy unspeakable, whose roots, though he would not trace them on this new day of his life, were nourished by the wellspring of a despair not yet discovered."
Though it was hailed at publication for its groundbreaking use of black idiom, what is most striking about Go Tell It on the Mountain today is its structure and its scope. In peeling back the layers of these damaged lives, Baldwin dramatizes the story of the great black migration from rural South to urban North. "Behind them was the darkness," Baldwin writes of Gabriel and Elizabeth's lost generation, "nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire--a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!" This is Baldwin's music--a music in which rhapsody is rooted anguish--and there is none finer in American literature. --David Laskin [via]
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How to Lose Your Life and Love the Legendby Andrew O'HaganISBN 0571216013 (0-571-21601-3)
Softcover, Faber & Faber, Limited
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The Missingby Andrew O'HaganISBN 0571215602 (0-571-21560-2)
Softcover, Faber & Faber, Limited
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New Writing 11by Andrew O'Hagan , Colm ToibinISBN 0330485970 (0-330-48597-0)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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Our Fathersby Andrew O'HaganISBN 0156012022 (0-15-601202-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Fathers'Book summary:The author's first novel. [via]
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Our Fathersby Our Fathers Staff, Andrew O'HaganISBN 0571201504 (0-571-20150-4)
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Personalityby Andrew O'HaganISBN 0156029677 (0-15-602967-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Personality'Book summary:Andrew O'Hagan's Personality opens on Scotland's Isle of Bute with three generations of the Tambini family struggling for success in their adopted home. The blanket of charm that envelops the Tambini's gradually discloses many secrets: forgotten children, torrid affairs, closeted homosexuality, and suppressed ethnic tension. Thirteen-year-old singer Maria Tambini seems to be everybody's antidote to past failures. After she leaves Bute for and audition with the television show Opportunity Knocks in London, she rapidly achieves both fame and fortune buoyed by a voice "like Barbara Streisand['s]" and charisma beyond her years. Friends and family mourn her loss to stardom while taking solace that someone has escaped Bute and achieved success as they imagine it must be on television.
But Maria's abrupt transformation into a personality leads to obsession with body image, clothes, hairstyles, and make-up; she sees herself as only an object for other people's entertainment: "Her body was apart from her. The person with thoughts was different from the person with arms and legs, a stomach and a face." For Maria, a life of surfaces, a life of pleasing, means self-annihilation. As her self fades into the image that others project on her, her body literally withers away.
O'Hagan experiments with virtually every narrative form in Personality (even including an epistolary chapter). Not all of these attempts work, and the story--driven by its strong characters and not plot--occasionally bogs down in details unnecessary to the development of either. But even in these rare lapses O'Hagan, whose previous work has been short-listed for the Booker Prize, carries his reader through his finesse with Scottish dialect and the wit of his rich supporting characters. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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The Weekenders: Adventures in Calcuttaby Andrew O'Hagan , Bella BathurstISBN 0091895782 (0-09-189578-2)
Softcover, Ebury
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