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Title Statement | Mayflies / Andrew O'Hagan. |
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Author | O'Hagan, Andrew, 1968- |
Publication | ©2020[Toronto]: McClelland & Stewart,2021. |
Edition | M&S hardcover edition. |
Extent of Item | 277 pages |
ISBN | 9780771018916 0771018916 |
Other Number | 3909810 |
Summary | 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 -- news that forces the life-long friends to confront their own mortality head-on. What follows is an incredibly moving examination of the responsibilities and obligations we have to those we love. 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? And what does it mean to love another person amidst tragedy? |
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By Topic | Nineteen eighties--Fiction |
Social classes--Fiction | |
Life change events--Fiction | |
Friendship--Fiction | |
By Location | Manchester (England)--Fiction |
Scotland--Fiction | |
By Genre | Bildungsromans |