The Statement: Reissued - Couverture souple

Moore, Brian

 
9781408826171: The Statement: Reissued
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1408826178 ISBN 13 : 9781408826171
Editeur : Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2011

Synopsis

A reissued edition of Brian Moore's superb thriller

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

Brian Moore (1921-1999) was born in Belfast. He served with the British Ministry of War Transport during WW2 in North Africa, Italy and France. After the war he worked for the United Nations before emigrating to Canada in 1948 where he began to write novels. Shorlisted for the Booker three times, Moore died in California. On his death, the LA Times called him 'one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel'.

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Éditeur
Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1408826178
ISBN 13 
9781408826171
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
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Personne responsable
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