Vuonna 1960 Frank Sinatra antoi ystävälleen Marilyn Monroelle koiran, jonka tämä nimesi Mafia Honeyksi. Maf vietti Marilynin kanssa tähden viimeiset kaksi vuotta. Se pääsi mukaan kaikkialle ja näki kaiken. Se rakasti maksaa, kenkiä ja filosofiaa. Mutta eniten serakasti emäntäänsä.Romaan[...]
"A brilliant essayist, O'Hagan] constructs sentences that pierce like pinpricks." -- "Publishers Weekly," starred review
For more than two decades, Andrew O'Hagan has been publishing celebrated essays on both sides of the Atlantic. "The Atlantic Ocean" highlights the best of his clear-eyed, br[...]
An arresting story of myth and memory from an acclaimed British novelist
Anne Quirk's life is built on stories--both the lies she was told by the man she loved and the fictions she told herself to survive. Nobody remembers Anne now, but this elderly woman was an artistic pioneer in her youth, a [...]
The theme of this Scottish Catholic novel is the collision of the old Scotland of municipal socialism and the new. That collision is dramatized in the story of the narrator's grandfather, an ambitious but misguided social improver.[...]
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. Maf the dog was with Marilyn for the last two years of her life. Not only a picares[...]
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? The Illuminations, Andrew O'Hagan's fifth novel, is a beautiful, deeply charged story about love and memory, about modern war and the complications of fact. Stan[...]