O'Hagan, Andrew <br/><br/>
Mayflies / 
Andrew O'Hagan 
 - London  Faber and Faber  2020 
 - 277 p. 
<br/><br/> Winner of the Christopher Isherwood Prize *** 'Mayflies is one of those novels to press into the hands of friends... I adored this book.' Carol Ann Duffy *** 'A beautiful ode to lost youth and male friendship written by one of our sharpest observers of modern masculinity.' Douglas Stuart 'A life-enhancing novel. It will stay with you and you will want to read it again.' Alan Massie, Scotsman 'A joyful, warm and heart-filling tribute to the million-petalled flower of male friendship.' John Self, The Times A heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong friendship. Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. In 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. Thirty years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has news. Mayfly is a memorial to youth's euphorias and to everyday tragedy. A tender goodbye to an old union, it discovers the joy and the costs of love. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780571273690 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Fiction<br/>Great Britain<br/>Music<br/>Friendship<br/>Youth<br/>Social conditions<br/>England<br/>Cancer--Patients
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>Fiction OHA-A