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    <body><![CDATA[I read Maureen Corrigan's <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11155875">review</a> last summer and couldn't resist this book. I have never had the experience with a main character where I was intrigued and interested and then repulsed and resigned. I think Corrigan is right, this is a meditative novel, and the language is so beautiful that it's sta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3366916">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Andrew Oâ€™Hagan crafts a real world, a seaside hamlet in the Scottish isles, and inhabits it with a flawed priest, a protagonist who I slowly grew to like, to respect, to understand. David, a fifty-something year old, spends a lot of time reflecting on the past, on his childhood, his mother (a succ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8328891">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[When you hear that the story is about a Catholic priest, you can't help but fear that you know where you are going.  But this delicately written, complicated story takes you many other places.  Father David does not fit in in the insular, conservative Scottish town where he has come to be near his a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1687157">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[  This novel takes place in Scotland with flashbacks to a priest's days at Oxford.  Although born in Scotland, he sounds English and encounters prejudice against both priests and the English in his small parish.  The plot surprised me and kept me reading as I learned more about the lonely priest, hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23983490">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>Although Andrew O'Hagan's third novel touches on themes of sexual misconduct, it focuses more on loyalty, friendship, love, longing, and morality‚Äîeven touching on the rebellious 1960s and the war in Iraq. Critics agree that O'Hagan paints a masterful portrait of Dalgarnock life, successfully contr...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45463795">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This burnished gem of a novel has drama, emotional resonance and intellectual power enough to recall one's favorite 19th century writers. At its center is David Anderton, a Scottish-born, Oxford-educated Catholic priest who, after years in England, assumes a parish in working-class Scotland to be cl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44330754">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Well... this book... I have to say I understand both the good reviews and the less good reviews. First 30 pages it didn't get me, this book. And some parts of the book, e.g. the elaborate writings of his university period, didn't appeal to me much. <br/>Maybe it is because I'm not a native English ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30316193">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Be Near Me tells the story of Father David, a priest having a mid-life spiritual crisis.  After moving to a new parish,  Father David becomes friends with two rebellious teenagers as well as his acerbic housekeeper.  <br/><br/>I did not like this book.  Father David, as a character, is a bit of a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16399732">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A beautifully written book narrated simply by an Oxford-educated Catholic priest in a small parish in Scotland where he is viewed with suspicion as an outsider but befriends a couple of troubled teenagers &amp; his housekeeper. The book is reminiscent of the one I read at Montreat this summer, The Testa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66027395">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I only read one book on the way to ALA (I slept on the plane, and read the newest issue of Craft magazine), and was really excited for it, b/c I loved O'Hagan's Personality. Unfortunately, this novel involved one of my least favorite plot points--an old dude forming an inappropriate relationship wit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10884102">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the character development in this book.  I couldn't put it down.  The writing is clear and simple.  The character undergoes a severe awakening of himself that includes questions of love, living fully, the authentic self, how we hide and what we use to deny who we are.  I just loved it.  The ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59483099">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This one didn't appeal to me although I came to it with high hopes. It's complex and intelligent and politically astute but somehow it just failed to grip me. I just couldn't believe in Father David.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Intelligent and moving story about good man who meets himself for the first time. He makes a bad decision because of loneliness and pays the price.]]></body>
    
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