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Andrew O'Hagan (Author)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber (6 May 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571215602
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571215607
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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In a brilliant merging of reportage, social history and memoir, Andrew O'Hagan clears a devastating path from the bygone Glasgow of the 1970s to the grim secrets of Gloucester in the mid 1990s. One of the most original, moving and beautifully written non-fiction works of recent years, The Missing marked the acclaimed debut of one of Britain's most astute and important writers.

'He is a writer who looks myths and lazy thoughts and images clear in the face and scrubs them down to what he elegantly calls 'truthful inelegance'. From the 'boiling contradictions' of his childhood this young writer has made a triumph in words.' Candia McWilliam, Independent on Sunday

'Andrew O'Hagan's The Missing, part autobiography, part old-fashioned pavement-pounding, marks the most auspicious debut by a British writer for some time.' Gordon Burn, Independent

'His synthesis of memoir and the meta-genre we have made of serial killing reverberates powerfully. This is a story of an undeclared war of social anomie, in which we all have the potential for victimhood. A timely corrective to the idea that nothing profound can be said about now.' Will Self, Observer, Books of the Year

'O'Hagan is an attractive guide on his pilgrimage of the missed and unmissed . . . His vision of modern Britain has the quality of a poetic myth, with himself as Bunyan's questing Christian and the missing as Dantesque souls in limbo.' Blake Morrison, Guardian

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Andrew O'Hagan was born in Glasgow in 1968. His first book, The Missing, was published in 1995 and shortlisted for the Esquire/Waterstone's/Apple Non-Fiction Award. Our Fathers, his debut novel, was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize. His second novel, Personality, was published in 2003 and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. In January of that year Granta named him one of the 'Best of Young British Novelists' and in April he received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He lives in London.
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A meditation on the thousands and thousands of people who go missing in the UK every year, some deliberately, some due to harm coming to them but many simply falling between the cracks of society, taken away by dementia, drugs, unhappiness. Deeply sad and moving.
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What does it mean to be "missing" at the end of the 20th century? This is the question Andrew O'Hagan poses in this incredibly thought provoking study of his fascination, which began in childhood, of the people who "disappear" from society. He examines all the possible reasons, from crime to depression to abuse at home to disillusionment with life. We meet young runaways, grieving parents, and many others whose life has been touched by loss. This is a must-read for anyone who wishes to consider the implications of the breakdown of community.
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I have just started reading this book and so far I am enjoying it. I look forward to picking it up again every time I put it down. Glad I bought it.
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