The Atlantic Ocean: Reports from Britain and America
- ISBN-10
- 0151013780
- ISBN-13
- 9780151013784
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 353
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Andrew O'Hagan
Description
Collects the author's reminiscences of his working-class Scottish upbringing; a piece about the lives of two soldiers, one English, one American, both of whom died in Iraq; an examination of the life of William Styron; and an essay on the rise of the tabloids.
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