The Magician's Wife by Brian Moore

The Magician's Wife by Brian Moore

By the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Lies of Silence

‘A spellbinding storyteller' * Independent *
‘A tour de force, Moore has left no seams between reality and fictionFlashing his own sleight of hand, he transforms historical fact into a story both true to its time and relevant to the present day' * New York Times *
‘Combines the pleasure of a thriller with a novel that considers questions of morality and politics, ambition and conscience, the lure of illusion and the magic of truth' * People *
‘Moore is a magician' * LA Times *

Brian Moore was born in Belfast. He emigrated to Canada in 1948 and then moved to California. He twice won the Canadian Governor General's Award for Fiction and has been given a special award from the United States Institute of Arts and Letters. He won the Author's Club First Novel Award for The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Great Victorian Collection. The Doctor's Wife, The Colour of Blood - winner of the Sunday Express 1988 Book of the Year - and Lies of Silence were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Six of his novels have been made into films - The Luck of Ginger Coffey, Catholics, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, Cold Heaven, The Statement and Black Robe. Brian Moore died in 1999.

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ISBN 13	9781408827017
ISBN 10	1408827018
Title	The Magician's Wife
Author	Brian Moore
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2012-02-02
Number of pages	272
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