Books by Andrew O'Hagan and Complete Book Reviews
Andrew O'Hagan, Author . Harcourt $25 (311p) ISBN 978-0-15-101000-4
O'Hagan chronicles the rise and fall of a troubled pop singer in his poignant second novel "inspired to some extent by the lives of several dead performers." Young Maria Tambini has a powerful set of pipes: on Scotland's Isle of Bute,
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Andrew O'Hagan, Author . Harcourt $24 (305p) ISBN 978-0-15-101303-6
This burnished gem of a novel has drama, emotional resonance and intellectual power enough to recall one's favorite 19th century writers. At its center is David Anderton, a Scottish-born, Oxford-educated Catholic priest who, after years in...
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Andrew O'Hagan, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-15-101372-2
O'Hagan (Be Near Me) conjures canine narrator Maf, short for "Mafia Honey," to introduce readers to a world where dogs' playful manners belie their capacity for philosophy—Maf is a Trotsky fan—cats speak in poetic form, and animals provide a gateway
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Andrew O'Hagan, Author New Press $20 (208p) ISBN 978-1-56584-335-6
This remarkable book defies simple classification. Although ostensibly a study of missing persons (both from the perspective of the missing and those left behind), it is also an autobiography, an investigative report and a memoir of the effect of a...
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Andrew O’Hagan. Mariner, $15.95 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-15-101378-4
Award-winning Scottish novelist O’Hagan (The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe) brings together pieces previously published in Granta, the Guardian Weekend, the London Review of Books, and the New York Review of...
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Andrew O%E2%80%99Hagan. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-0-374-17456-9
This empathetic novel from O’Hagan (Our Fathers) revolves around a fictional, largely unknown photographer named Anne Quirk, and Luke, her grandson, who serves in the British Army. Anne suffers from dementia and lives in a retirement community. Luke
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Andrew O'Hagan, Author, O'Hagan, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $30 (304p) ISBN 978-0-15-100494-2
Scottish writer O'Hagan's first book, The Missing, was a well-received nonfictional compound of memoir and journalism on the subject of missing persons. Now, switching competently to fiction, he has produced a family melodrama and novel of social...
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Andrew O’Hagan. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (240p) ISBN 978-0-374-27791-8
This splendid collection from novelist O’Hagan (The Illuminations) brings together three essays originally published in the London Review of Books that explore identity in the digital age through three figures: Julian Assange, the founder of...
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Andrew O’Hagan. McClelland and Stewart, $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7710-1891-6
O’Hagan’s powerful if disjointed latest (after The Illuminations) explores a friendship between two men over three decades. Narrator Jimmy Collins and Tully Dawson, Glaswegian teenagers on the verge of adulthood in 1986, reconnect 31 years later...
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Andrew O’Hagan. Norton, $32.50 (608p) ISBN 978-1-324-07487-8
O’Hagan (Mayflies) centers this wide-ranging novel of ideas on an art critic and professor from a working-class Scottish background. In 2021 London, Campbell Flynn, 52, has achieved cultural prominence but continues to fall short of financial...
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