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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. 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 England, assumes a parish in working-class Scotland to be closer to his mother, a writer and free spirit. Now in his 50s, David recalls his own passions vividly, but he has traded his 1960s university ideals to favor the Iraq war, and his realizations of romantic love for a life of the cloth. From early on, there's a glaring gap between David's first-person recollections and the elitist, alienating affectations he assumes with others. His Dalgarnock parishioners are suspicious of his education; his only companions are his sardonic but morally stringent housekeeper, Mrs. Poole, and a pair of thuggish teenagers, Mark and Lisa, who remind him of his own youthful rebellions. As Mark and Lisa draw David into their chaotic lives, the novel builds to an inevitable clash between the spiritual and the secular, the adult and adolescent, the utopian 1960s and the neoconservative 2000s. Throughout, O'Hagan (The Missing) enchants with his effortless prose, vivid characters and David's uncanny asides, making O'Hagan's fourth novel a heartrending tour de force. (June)
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David Anderton, a Roman Catholic priest in working-class Dalgarnock, Scotland, is a posh outsider who prefers keeping emotionally distant from his parishioners. His only friends are his housekeeper, Mrs. Poole, and a couple of thrill-seeking teenagers, Mark and Lisa, victims of forgotten hope. Anderton grows too close to Mark, mistaking camaraderie for something more. Jerome Pride works magic in this performance. He simply vanishes. In his place, fully formed, are pub-lounging locals blighted by unemployment, parish clergymen desperate to avoid yet another church abuse scandal, and Father Anderton himself, seeking, longing, trying to understand his actions. Deep, age-old fears and resentments boil to the surface, the town becomes a mob, and Pride sweeps listeners up in Andertons trial and its aftermath. An incredible book. An amazing performance. S.J.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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