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'The only wise prediction to make about a new Brian Moore novel is that it will be unpredictable and wise,' wrote Christopher Ricks reviewing Black Robe , one of the twenty magnificent novels which put Brian Moore into the first rank of world writers. Northern Ireland may have shaped him, as he grew up one of nine children in a Catholic doctor's Belfast household, but World War II took him to Africa and war-ravaged Europe, and Canada freed him to become a writer. In 1955 he published The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne , the first of many novels which led steadily to international critical acclaim. He was a writer's writer, baffling contemporaries with how he pulled off his literary feats. Patricia Craig, who began this authorised biography with the help and blessing of Brian Moore himself, and his wife Jean, pieces together the colourful life that lay behind the novels. She also reveals the droll, romantic, cant-hating, affable and brilliant man who so disarmingly enhanced twentieth-century letters.Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-139780747568445
eBay Product ID (ePID)88336287
Product Key Features
Book TitleBrian Moore: a Biography
AuthorPatricia Craig
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterature
Publication Year2004
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width129mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorPatricia Craig
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom