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Jeffrey Moore
Jeffrey Moore is a Canadian writer, translator and educator currently living in Val-Morin in the Quebec Laurentians. Moore was born in Montreal, and educated at the University of Toronto, BA, the University of Paris (post-1970), Sorbonne and the University of Ottawa, MA. Career Moore's first novel, ''Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain'' won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in 2000. Moore's second novel, ''The Memory Artists'', (published 2004 by Viking, 19 translations) won the Canadian Authors Association Prize for fiction in 2005. It follows Noel Burun, a psychology graduate student with synaesthesia and hypermnesia, as he sets out with three equally eccentric friends to find a wonder-drug cure for his mother's early-onset Alzheimer's. "Moore explores every facet of memory," according to Joanne Wilkinson in ''Booklist'', "as both a burden and a blessing--in this delightful and inspired story." In the ''New York Times Book Review'', Michael J. Agovino described ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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