The Mangan Inheritance by Brian Moore
Not so long ago James Mangan was a brilliant young poet. These days, however, he toils as a journalistand shivers in the shadow of his glamorous movie-star wife. And now she has left him for her lover. Adrift and depressed, Jamie takes refuge with his father, in whose house he turns up a 19th-century daguerreotype bearing the initials J.M. and depicting a man who, as it happens, is Jamie's spitting image. Could this be the only existing photograph of his purported ancestor, the legendarily dissolute Irish poet James Clarence Mangan? Obsessed by this strange resemblance--and aided by an unexpected financial windfall--Jamie heads to Ireland thinking at last to discover that elusive entity: himself. Instead, in the dreary coastal village of Drishane, he meets the Mangans: derelict Eileen, sullen Dinny, drunken (and shrunken) Conor, and the sexy and very available Kathleen. They know something, for sure--something to do with Jamie, and something they don't want him to find out.
The Mangan Inheritance is melodrama at its most inventive and suggestive, an inquiry into the problem of identity and the nature of ancestry that beguiles the reader with dark deeds, wild humor, and weird goings-on, on its way towards a shocking and terrifying--and utterly satisfying--conclusion.
The Statement, No Other Life, Lies Of Silence, and The Lonely Passion Of Judith Hearne are among Brian Moore's nineteen novels. Moore was nominated for the Booker Prize three times. In 1999, he passed away.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780140056716 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140056718 |
| Title | The Mangan Inheritance |
| Author | Brian Moore |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1981-02-26 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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