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The watchers and the watched: Patrick Flanery's I Am No One

Is this hero paranoid, or is someone really monitoring his every move, as he suspects?

27 February 2016

9:00 AM

27 February 2016

9:00 AM

I Am No One Patrick Flanery

Atlantic Books, pp.336, £12.99, ISBN: 9781782397953

‘First and last I was, and always would be, an American,’ Jeremy O’Keefe, the professor narrator of Patrick Flanery’s new novel, insists, with just the kind of pedantic over-emphasis that makes the reader suspicious. Equally dubious is the way he talks. Having spent the last decade at Oxford teaching and writing a book about the Stasi, O’Keefe’s speech is now an odd mixture of affectation and deracination (‘helicoptering’, ‘faux-artisanal’).

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