{"product_id":"mayflies-isbn-9780771068119","title":"Mayflies","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn unforgettable coming-of-age novel that becomes a profound mediation on life, death, and lifelong friendship.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the climax of their youth: a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicentre of everything that inspires them in working-class Britain. There, against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded, a vow is made: to go at life differently.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThirty years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has news--news that forces the life-long friends to confront their own mortality head-on. What follows is an incredibly moving examination of the responsibilities and obligations we have to those we love. \u003ci\u003eMayflies\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a finely-tuned drama about the delicacy and impermanence of human connection and an urgent inquiry into some of the most important questions of all: Who are we? What do we owe to our friends? And what does it mean to love another person amidst tragedy?\"A beautiful ode to lost youth and male friendship written by one of our sharpest observers of modern masculinity.\" —Douglas Stuart, author of \u003ci\u003eShuggie Bain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMayflies\u003c\/i\u003e is one of those novels to press into the hands of friends. Beautifully written—wise, funny, poetic, alert to time, place and the ordinary human . . . I adored this book.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eCarol Ann Duffy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tender, heartfelt\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, New \u0026amp; Noteworthy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mayflies\u003c\/i\u003e is entirely unexpected; a joyful, warm and heart-filling tribute to the million-petalled flower of male friendship. This book will last beyond these feverish times: it's not just a reminder that culture makes the worst things bearable, but a beautiful example of it in action.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A rare thing: a life-enhancing novel about death. It will stay with you and you will want to read it again.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eScotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Life-loving and elegiac.\" \u003cb\u003e―\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A delightful nostalgia trip of enduring teenage friendship . . . an affecting and evocative picture of an era and a relationship.\" \u003cb\u003e―\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"O'Hagan has written a tight, delicate and soulful novel . . . about the power of enduring friendship.\" \u003cb\u003e―\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An assured and self-contained piece of theatre, in which love of many kinds is tested, \u003ci\u003eMayflies \u003c\/i\u003eis rich in allusions, gracefully written, yet vigorous. . . . This is a book of high artistic ambition, and a reminder, were it needed, of the seriousness that fiction can address . . . O'Hagan's achievement is not to flinch from reality, nor to wallow in misery, but to fill the pages with roaring life, right up to the last kick of the ball.\" \u003cb\u003e―\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone and read Andrew O'Hagan's new novel. \u003ci\u003eMayflies \u003c\/i\u003eis a lifetime book.\" \u003cb\u003e―\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Australian\u003c\/i\u003eANDREW O'HAGAN was born in Glasgow. He has been nominated for the Booker Prize, was voted one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2003, and he won the E. M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is Editor-at-Large of the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299706654949,"sku":"NP9780771068119","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771068119.jpg?v=1767732454","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/mayflies-isbn-9780771068119","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}