Books written by Andrew O'Hagan

Alison Watt: In Conversation

The first appearance in print of a series of brand new paintings by Alison Watt Revisits and explores the work of popular 18th-century artist, Allan Ramsay A fascinating melding of 18th- and 21st-century Scottish art A beautiful book which, ...
Our Fathers

In his last weeks he took to the water off the Solway Strand. The Brow-well was rich in iron; a bottomless, salted mud. The wind of Annandale cut to the very bone. The poet waded out: he shivered in the green cordial, knowing death, ...
Mayflies

Tully was standing on the bed now . “ Vamoose ! Scarper ! How no ' ? ' I stood on the bed , too . “ That's right , I said . “ What's your name ? ' ' Fergus ! “ That's you , Fergus ) I shouted . ' King of Salford !
The Atlantic Ocean: Reports from Britain and America

At the wedding they all sang “Chattanooga Choo Choo.” Mailer recognizes the virtue in attempting to understand Oswald through his marriage. He is not the first to have done so: he acknowledges and borrows from Priscilla Johnson ...
Mayflies

A heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong friendship.
Be Near Me

Father David is taking time out of his own work to give you all a nice time.' 'Definitely, Mrs P. A day off school and everything. ... One was from Father Michael, the priest at St Margaret's in Irvine, telling me about a ...
The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe

I wanted to say something to the man about Lincoln's dog, Fido. He was a freedom-loving animal, a golden retriever. He lived in Springfield, Illinois, and stayed there after the great man got the call to Washington.
The Atlantic Ocean: Reports from Britain and America

Baldwin's sensibility, his talent for moral ambivalence, his taste for the terrifying patterns of life, the elegant force of his disputatious spirit, as much Henry James as Bessie Smith, was not always to find favor with his black ...
The Illuminations: A Novel

Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize The Illuminations, the fifth novel from Andrew O'Hagan, a writer "of astonishingly assured gifts" (The New York Times Book Review), is a work of deeply charged beauty--and one that demonstrates, with ...
Vida y opiniones del perro Maf y de su amiga Marilyn Monroe

«Toca tranquilo, sin mensajes», le dijo Sammy al batería negro, ... Si tener aplomo, incluso cierto descaro, era una versión relajada e informal de aquello que decía Hemingway de la elegancia bajo presión, entonces Sammy la tenía en ...
Maf-koira ja hänen ystävänsä Marilyn Monroe

Mariannen isä Oskar Rie oli lastenlääkäri ja Freudin ystävä, joka aina joulunaikaan lähetti suurmiehelle ... Silmissään sillä pikku beatnik-hämähäkillä oli pilvenpolttajan laiska katse. ... Jumalauta, tuolla on Nalle Puh latinaksi!
Personality

Can Maria, 'the girl with the giant voice', be saved by love or is she destined to be consumed by celebrity, by family secrets, and by her number one fan?
Be Near Me

In a small Scottish parish, an English priest is stalked by the fear of scandal, class hatred and lost ideals.
The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe

And so is Marilyn."--Roddy Doyle "Why is it the most moving book I've read in many years? Why is it dazzling and true? The re-creations of the Actors Studio and the Partisan Review party are uncanny. The whole book is uncanny . . .
The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe

In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Maf. He had an instinct for the twentieth century. For politics. For psychoanalysis. For literature. For interior decoration. This is his story.
Be Near Me

In this riveting novel, where every word counts, Andrew O’Hagan’s brilliant writing leads us into a story of art and politics, love and faith.
The Missing

' Gordon Burn, Independent 'His synthesis of memoir and the meta-genre we have made of serial killing reverberates powerfully. This is a story of an undeclared war of social anomie, in which we all have the potential for victimhood.
Mayflies: A Novel

Mayflies is at once a finely-tuned drama about the delicacy and impermanence of human connection and an urgent inquiry into some of the most important questions of all: Who are we? What do we owe to our friends?
Leben und Ansichten von Maf dem Hund und seiner Freundin Marilyn Monroe: Roman

Leben und Ansichten von Maf dem Hund und seiner Freundin Marilyn Monroe: Roman
Personality

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