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Harcourt
June 2007
On Sale: June 4, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 0151013039
EAN: 9780151013036
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A lways trust a stranger," said David’s mother when he
returned from Rome. "It’s the people you know who let you down." Half a life later, David is Father Anderton, a Catholic
priest with a small parish in Scotland. He befriends Mark
and Lisa, rebellious local teenagers who live in a world he
barely understands. Their company stirs memories of earlier
happiness—his days at a Catholic school in Yorkshire, the
student revolt in 1960s Oxford, and a choice he once made in
the orange groves of Rome. But their friendship also ignites
the suspicions and smoldering hatred of a town that resents
strangers, and brings Father David to a reckoning with the
gathered tensions of past and present. In this masterfully written novel, Andrew O’Hagan explores
the emotional and moral contradictions of religious life in
a faithless age.
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