Be Near Me

by Andrew O'Hagan

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Glaswegian-turned-Londoner Andrew O'Hagan made a name for himself as the deputy editor of the London Review of Books before publishing his nonfiction debut, The Missing, in 1995. In this profound inquiry into the worlds of the vanished— runaways, abductees, murder victims—O'Hagan wove together journalism, family history, and memoir (the project was sparked by curiosity about his grandfather's disappearance during World War II). Fiction always draws O'Hagan back to Scotland: His first two novels, Our Fathers (1999) and Personality (2003), are multigenerational family sagas. Our Fathers takes the reader to Glasgow and Ayrshire and brings together a dying master builder and the demolition-expert grandson who has destroyed his towers. Personality is set on the Isle of Bute and follows the tumultuous career of an

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