Author

Contributions

  • O'Hagan, Andrew, 1968- - Contributor

Publication

2009 - Faber and Faber, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

25,500 words, Guess

Page Count

102 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780571249688
  • ISBN-10057124968X
  • Goodreads6363492
  • Library of Congress Control Number2009379770
  • OCLC Control Number318718043
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780571249688
  • Open LibraryOL23209385M

Classifications

  • LCCPR6113.C376 B46 2009

Description

Father David Anderton is assigned to a crippled Scottish town on the Ayrshire coast, where sectarianism is rife. He is a cultivated -- if naive and unworldly -- man, ill-suited to his new parish. Drifting from his peers, he is drawn to Mark and Lisa, a feral teenage couple who attend the nearby school. Their untamed nights of booze and drugs are as exotic and entrancing to him as his solitary and cloistered life is to them. But, as events take a perilous direction, this combustible liasion will leave Father David's world in pieces.

Subjects

Topics

DramaClergyFictionScandalsProblem youthCatholic ChurchScotland -- Drama

Genres

  • Drama
  • Fiction

Series Statement

  • FF plays

Other Editions

  • Be near meFaber and Faber2009-01-01

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