Hugh Bawn was a modern hero, a dreamer, a Socialist, a man of the people who revolutionized Scotland's residential development after World War II. Now he lies dying on the eighteenth floor of one of the flats he built, flats that are being demolished along with the idealism he inherited from his mother. Hugh's final months are plagued by memory and loss, by bitter feelings about his family and the country that could not live up to the housing constructed for it. His grandson, Jamie, comes home to watch over his dying mentor ...
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Hugh Bawn was a modern hero, a dreamer, a Socialist, a man of the people who revolutionized Scotland's residential development after World War II. Now he lies dying on the eighteenth floor of one of the flats he built, flats that are being demolished along with the idealism he inherited from his mother. Hugh's final months are plagued by memory and loss, by bitter feelings about his family and the country that could not live up to the housing constructed for it. His grandson, Jamie, comes home to watch over his dying mentor and sees in the man and in the land that bred him his own fears. He tells the story of his family-a tale of pride and delusion, of nationality and strong drink, of Catholic faith and the end of the old Left. It is a tale of dark hearts and modern houses, of three men in search of Utopia. Andrew O'Hagan's story is a poignant and powerful reclamation of the past and a clear-sighted look at our relationship with personal and public history. Our Fathers announces the arrival of a major writer.
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Add this copy of Our Fathers: a Novel By the Author of the Missing to cart. $6.05, very good condition, Sold by Orphans Treasure Box rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Champaign, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Size: 5x1x8; Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 289 pages, maroon boards. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear BUT spine canted; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket, with the original price present.
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As New in Near Fine jacket. NON price-clipped dust jacket [$ 23.00], clean, crisp, colors bright, minor edge wear. Complete letter line [A C E D B] at copyright page. Pages [289] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Magenta boards, clean, bright silver gilt lettering. Author's debut novel. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described.
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New York. 1999. Harcourt Brace. Advance Reading Copy. Very Good in Wrappers. 0151004943. 289 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature Scotland. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Hugh Provan was a Modernist hero. A dreamer, a Socialist, a man of the people, he led Scotland's towerblock programme after the war. Now he lies on a bed on the eighteenth floor. The times have changed. His flats are coming down. The idealism he learned from his mother is gone. And even as his breath goes out he clings to the old ways. His wife sings her Scots ballads to soothe him, yet his final months are plagued by memory and loss, by a bitter sense of his family and his country, who could not live up to the houses he built for them. Meanwhile the corruption hearings bring their hammer down on the past. Hugh's grandson, Jamie, comes home to watch over his dying mentor. The old man's final months bring Jamie to see what is best and worst in the past that haunts them all, and he sees the fears of his own life unravel in the land that bred him. He tells the story of his own family-a tale of pride and delusion, of nationality and strong drink, of Catholic faith and the end of the old Left. It is a tale of dark hearts and modern houses, of three men in search of Utopia. Andrew O'Hagan has written a story which is a poignant and powerful reclamation of the past and a clear sighted gaze at our relationship with history, personal and public. inventory #27142.
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Very Good. Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; Type: Advanced Reading Copy (ARC) Advance Reading Copy Paperback in Very Good Condition. A novel of three generations of dreamers in postwar Scotland. Clean and unmarked wrappers, with a whisper of wear to corners; glued binding tight and solid. Internals as new. A story of s dreamer. a Socialist, Huhn Bawn, a man of the people who revolutionized Scotland's development after WWII. He now lies dying in one of the flats he built, flats that are being demolished along with the idealism he inherited from his mother. A poignant and powerful reclamation of the past and a look at our relationship with personal and public history. 290 pages. 8 x 5.25 inches. 1999, Harcourt, New York.
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Fine copy. 8"x 5 1/4" trade pbk, photo-illus cover, 291 pgs; pub info on back, w/ author photo by Jane Swan; 9 review-quotes on first page, book info on verso. book design by Lori McThomas Buley.
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Very Good. "First Edition" stated; full a-e number line. Dust jacket has light rubs, slight curl/crease to top edge and light scuffs. Boards have small bump to spine edges and smudges on end pages. Otherwise pages are clean and binding is tight. 8.25" tall, 289 pages.
