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O'Hagan, Andrew
by Our Fathers
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0151004943
- ISBN 13
- 9780151004942
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About This Item
New York. 1999. Harcourt Brace. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0151004943. 289 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Scotland. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Hugh Provan was a Modernist hero. A dreamer, a Socialist, a man of the people, he led Scotland's towerblock programme after the war. Now he lies on a bed on the eighteenth floor. The times have changed. His flats are coming down. The idealism he learned from his mother is gone. And even as his breath goes out he clings to the old ways. His wife sings her Scots ballads to soothe him, yet his final months are plagued by memory and loss, by a bitter sense of his family and his country, who could not live up to the houses he built for them. Meanwhile the corruption hearings bring their hammer down on the past. Hugh's grandson, Jamie, comes home to watch over his dying mentor. The old man's final months bring Jamie to see what is best and worst in the past that haunts them all, and he sees the fears of his own life unravel in the land that bred him. He tells the story of his own 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 has written a story which is a poignant and powerful reclamation of the past and a clear sighted gaze at our relationship with history, personal and public. inventory #27063 ISBN: 0151004943.
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- Bookseller
- Zeno's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27063
- Title
- O'Hagan, Andrew
- Author
- Our Fathers
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0151004943
- ISBN 13
- 9780151004942
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1999-10-07
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