I am Mary Dunne by Brian Moore
Who am I any more? All these names, who am I? After three marriages and four last names, Mary, a neurotic woman in her thirties, finds herself struggling to remember her own name and losing her sense of self. But what she does want to forget, she is condemned to remember - the last days of her relationship with Hat Bell, her depressive, alcoholic second husband, and her sense of responsibility for his death. As friends from the past resurface, these unwanted memories return full force and Mary finds herself desperately battling her inner torment. A powerful portrait of a woman struggling to reaffirm her sense of self, I am Mary Dunne is a compelling exploration of neurosis and obsessive love.
‘An extraordinary piece of feminine characterisation' * Sunday Times *
‘I can think of no other living male novelist who writes about women with such sympathy and understanding' * Times Literary Supplement *
‘As complex and satisfying as anything Moore has yet done' * Observer *
‘One of the truest and most awesome books I have ever read' * Scotsman *
‘I can think of no other living male novelist who writes about women with such sympathy and understanding' * Times Literary Supplement *
‘As complex and satisfying as anything Moore has yet done' * Observer *
‘One of the truest and most awesome books I have ever read' * Scotsman *
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 | 9781408827031 |
| ISBN 10 | 1408827034 |
| Title | I am Mary Dunne |
| Author | Brian Moore |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2012-02-02 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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