Mayflies / Andrew O'Hagan.
Publication details: London : Faber & Faber, 2020.Description: 277 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780571273690 (paperback)
- 1900-1999
- Friendship
- Love
- Music
- Social conditions
- Youth
- Male friendship -- Fiction
- Terminally ill -- Fiction
- Cancer -- Patients -- Fiction
- Caregivers -- Fiction
- Love -- Fiction
- Love -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- Youth -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- Music -- Fiction
- England
- Great Britain
- England -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
- 823.914 23
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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. Mayflies 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.