Personality

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Personality
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Andrew O'Hagan
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:336
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 128
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780571217755
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 1 April 2004
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Maria Tambini is a thirteen-year-old girl with an amazing singing voice. Growing up in the 1970s above her mother's chip shop on the Scottish island of Bute, she is making ready to escape the ordinary life to become a living exhibit in the modern drama of celebrity.

Author Biography

Andrew O'Hagan was born in Glasgow. He is the author of The Missing, which was shortlisted for the Esquire Award, the Saltire First Book Award, and the McVities prize for the Scottish Writer of the Year. His debut novel, Our Fathers, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the IMPAC Dublin International Literary Prize. He lives in London

Reviews

"The book is so bustling and rich...that the darkness seems lit from end to end."--The New Yorker"The New Yorker" (08/11/2003)