Mayflies [electronic resource]
O'Hagan, Andrew2020
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*** 'Mayflies is one of those novels to press into the hands of friends... I adored this book.' Carol Ann Duffy *** A heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong friendship. Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the climax of their youth: a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicentre of everything that inspires them in working-class Britain. There, against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded, a vow is made: to go at life differently. Thirty years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has news. Mayflies is a memorial to youth's euphorias and to everyday tragedy. A tender goodbye to an old union, it discovers the joy and the costs of love.
Main title:
Mayflies [electronic resource] / Andrew O'Hagan
Author:
O'Hagan, Andrew, Author
Work:
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Faber & Faber, 2020
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Biography/History:
Andrew O'Hagan is Editor-at-Large of the London Review of Books. He has been nominated for the Booker Prize and was voted one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003. O'Hagan has won the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
ISBN:
9780571273706
Language:
English
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BRN:
362826