Thursday 26 May 2016

I AM NO ONE - PATRICK FLANERY - REVIEW

Everybody enjoyed meeting Patrick Flanery at the May luncheon, his talk was informative and warm.

I found his book intriguing.  Professor Jeremy O'Keefe has returned to New York to take up a professorship at New York University after having spent 10 years at Oxford as a sounding Fellow and University Lecturer at one of Oxford's older Colleges.

He finds his time at Oxford lonely and the journey through his 10 years there reveal his friendships and romances none of which solve his loneliness and isolation.

His return to New York affords him the opportunity of repairing his relationship with his daughter who has married a successful magazine publisher. She and her husband are both successful and well connected, they entertain lavishly.

It is whilst living in New York that his last romance at Oxford comes back to haunt him.  'Big Brother' is watching and the ensuing happenings leave him fearful and paranoid...  What is happening? Is he going mad?

Beautifully written it is a good read which leaves the reader looking over their shoulder in this post-Snowden era...

Richard Kramer,  Diedre Shultz and Patrick Flanery


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