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I Am Mary Dunne
''I Am Mary Dunne'' is a novel, 1968 in literature, first published in 1968, by Northern Irish-Canadians, Canadian writer Brian Moore (novelist), Brian Moore about one day in the life of a beautiful and well-to-do 31-year-old Canadian woman living in New York, New York, New York City with her third husband, a successful playwright. Triggered by seemingly unimportant occurrences, the protagonist / first person narrator remembers her past in a series of Flashback (psychological phenomenon), flashbacks, which reveal her insecurities, her bad conscience concerning her first two husbands, and her fear that she is on the brink of insanity. ''I Am Mary Dunne'' has been described as "perhaps [Brian Moore's] best book". Robert Fulford (journalist), Robert Fulford, writing in Canada's ''The Globe and Mail'', calls it "[a] feminist novel written before the wave of feminist novels began". In its original draft, ''I Am Mary Dunne'' was called ''A Woman of No Identity''. References Further ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Moore (novelist)
Brian Moore ( ; 25 August 1921 – 11 January 1999), was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland, who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland during and after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The Troubles, and has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel". He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1975 and the inaugural ''Sunday Express'' Book of the Year award in 1987, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times (in 1976, 1987 and 1990). Moore also wrote screenplays and several of his books were made into films. Early life and education Moore was born and grew up in Belfast with eight siblings in a large Roman Catholic family. His grandfather, a severe, authoritarian solicitor, had been a Catholic convert. His father, James Bernard Moore, was a prominen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |