Andrew OHagan Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Am 20. Mai 2021, an einem heiteren Tag in London, steigt der 52-jährige Campbell Flynn, ein prominenter öffentlicher Intellektueller, aus einem Taxi. Er denkt an ein neues Projekt, während er aus bescheidenen Verhältnissen zur Elite des Vereinigten Königreichs aufgestiegen ist. Mit einer Frau aus dem Adel, einem besten Freund aus der Industrie und einem einflussreichen Schwager führt er ein Leben voller Vorträge und gesellschaftlicher Veranstaltungen. Doch seine Eitelkeit und der Umgang mit Geld sind seine Schwächen. Sein größter Rivale ist sein Lieblingsschüler. Im Verlauf eines turbulenten Jahres entfaltet sich ein Netz aus Verbrechen, Geheimnissen und Skandalen, in dem Campbell Flynn als zentrale Figur agiert. Dieser monumentale Gesellschaftsroman erstreckt sich von zwielichtigen Fabriken bis zu vornehmen Gemächern und beleuchtet die Gedanken illegaler Immigranten sowie die Machenschaften korrupter Politiker. Flynn, der Inbegriff des liberalen, gebildeten weißen Mannes, wird schließlich fallen, so wie die Ära, die er verkörpert. Kritiker loben das Werk als Meisterwerk und als das beste Buch, das seit langem in diesem Land geschrieben wurde.

From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace.

From the widely renowned author Andrew O'Hagan, a heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong friendship.

<b>A Top 10 Book of </b><b>Essays &amp; Literary Criticism for Fall 2017, <i>Publishers Weekly</i> Books We Can't Wait to Read in the Rest of 2017, <i>Chicago Reader</i></b> The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. The Internet shorthand IRL--"in real life"--now seems na�ve. We no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the digital age. In <i>The Secret Life: Three True Stories</i>, the essayist and novelist Andrew O'Hagan issues three bulletins from the porous border between cyberspace and IRL. "Ghosting" introduces us to the beguiling and divisive Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, whose autobiography the author agrees to ghostwrite with unforeseen--and unforgettable--consequences. "The Invention of Ronnie Pinn" finds the author using the actual identity of a deceased young man to construct an entirely new one in cyberspace, leading him on a journey deep into the Web's darkest realms. And "The Satoshi Affair" chronicles the strange case of Craig Wright, the Australian Web developer who may or may not be the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto--and who may or may not be willing, or even able, to reveal the truth. O'Hagan's searching pieces take us to the weirder fringes of life in a digital world while also casting light on our shared predicaments. What does it mean when your very sense of self becomes, to borrow a term from the tech world, "disrupted"? Perhaps it takes a novelist, an inventor of selves, armed with the tools of a trenchant reporter, to find an answer.

How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it? Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow. Nobody remembers her now, but this elderly woman was in her youth a pioneer of British documentary photography. Her beloved grandson, Luke, now a captain with the Royal Western Fusiliers, is on a tour of duty in Afghanistan, part of a convoy taking equipment to the electricity plant at Kajaki. Only when Luke returns home to Scotland does Anne's secret story begin to emerge, along with his, and they set out for an old guest house in Blackpool where she once kept a room.

Das kraftvolle Debüt Andrew O'Hagans - shortlisted für den Booker-Prize »Das Kind, das du gewesen bist, verlässt dich nie.« Diese Erfahrung macht Jamie, als er in seine schottische Heimat zu seinem sterbenden Großvater zurückkehrt. Dieser war in den fünfziger Jahren ein Pionier des schottischen Wohnungsbaus, ein Mann voller Ideale, im Einsatz für eine bessere Gesellschaft. Nun sieht Hugh Bawn seinem Ende entgegen – in einer heruntergekommenen Hochhaussiedlung, die einst zu seinen Vorzeigeprojekten gehörte. Für Jamie wird der Besuch eine Reise in die Vergangenheit: auf die Tyrannei des Vaters und den Idealismus des Großvaters folgte der Niedergang des Landes, und der hat auch vor Jamies Familie nicht haltgemacht. Am Ende steht die Chance auf Aussöhnung mit der größten Leerstelle in Jamies Leben: dem verschollenen Vater.

In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gifted Marilyn Monroe a dog named Maf, who had a keen instinct for 20th-century politics, psychoanalysis, literature, and interior design. Andrew O'Hagan's canine hero provides a humorous perspective on his complex life and Monroe's, revealing insights into her life and the extraordinary 1960s.

The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised. He has been sainted, painted, tarted up and toasted. He is famous as the author of 'Auld Lang Syne', and he has long since become the patron saint of the heart-sore and the hung-over.

Calum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of Raasay since his birth in 1911. He tended the Rona lighthouse at the very tip of his little archipelago, until semi-automation in 1967 reduced his responsibilities. ‘So what he decided to do,’ says his last neighbour, Donald MacLeod, ‘was to build a road out of Arnish in his months off. With a road he hoped new generations of people would return to Arnish and all the north end of Raasay . . .’ And so, at the age of 56, Calum MacLeod, the last man left in northern Raasay, set about single-handedly constructing the ‘impossible’ road. It would become a romantic, quixotic venture, a kind of sculpture; an obsessive work of art so perfect in every gradient, culvert and supporting wall that its creation occupied almost twenty years of his life. In Calum’s Road, Roger Hutchinson recounts the extraordinary story of this remarkable man’s devotion to his visionary project.

Be near me when my light is low, When the blood creeps, and nerves prick And tingle; and the heart is sick, And all the wheels of Being slow. from In Memoriam A.H.H Alfred, Lord Tennyson When an English priest takes over a small Scottish parish, not everyone is ready to accept him. He makes friends with two local youths, Mark and Lisa, and clashes with a world he can barely understand. The town seems to grow darker each night. Fate comes calling and before the summer is out his quiet life is the focus of public hysteria. Father David looks back to find a Lancashire childhood. He remembers a lost father and a grand school for Catholic boys. He finds 1960s Oxford in the heat of student revolt and recalls a choice he once made in the orange groves of Rome. Be Near Me is a story of art and politics, love and change, and a book about the way we live now. Trapped in class hatreds, threatened by personal flaws, Father David begins to discover what happened to the ideals of his generation. Meanwhile a religious war is unfolding on his doorstep...

Dopo l'esperienza africana di Weekenders, ancora una volta il Daily Telegraph ha riunito lrvine Welsh, Monica Ali, Michel Atherton, Bella Bathurst, Jenny Colgan, Simon Garfield, W. F. Deedes, Tony Hawks, Victoria Glendinning, Sam Millet e Colm Toibin per catapultarli a Calcutta: dal confort e dalla modernità delle loro occidentalissime città, Londra e Edimburgo, a un luogo dove il passato parla ancora e il futuro chiama più forte che mai. Da quell'esperienza sono nati i racconti compresi in questa antologia che, mescolando la fiction al reportage di viaggio, riflettono modi diversi di vedere una metropoli che è nel mondo simbolo di povertà e miseria e che i suoi abitanti chiamano la Città della Gioia.

Britský deník Daily Telegraph pozval sedm rozdílných anglických autorů na jeden víkend do Súdánu, „aby se osobně angažovali ve válce, která byla do té doby mimo jejich dosah...“ Každý z autorů je mistrem svého žánru – a každý z nich musel vykročit ze svého odlišného, nicméně podobně výlučného světa. Irvine Welsh, znalec drogové subkultury Edinburghu; Alex Garland, nonkonformní autor dobrodružných románů; Victoria Glendinningová, autorka zachycující životy z jiných století; Andrew O’Hagan, pronikavý kronikář současných životů; Bill Deedes, který je již 70 let novinářem, psal poprvé v životě beletrii; a Tony Hawks se pokoušel složit se súdánskými domorodci píseň. Pouze Giles Foden se skupinou necestoval. Jeho příspěvek, o který jsme požádali až později, jelikož jeho zkušenosti z Afriky dodaly knize další rozměr, byl napsán před hrozivými událostmi 11. září.

Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Our Fathers is a powerful reclamation of the past from one of Britain's most accomplished literary novelists. Hugh Bawn, modern Scottish hero and legendary social reformer, lies dying in one of the high-rise tower blocks he helped establish. schovat popis

Clears a devastating path from the bygone Glasgow of the 1970s to the grim secrets of Gloucester in the mid 1990s.