The Mangan Inheritance

MOORE, Brian

ISBN 10: 0374201943 / ISBN 13: 9780374201944

Edité par Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1979

A propos de cet article

First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. An earlier novel from the acclaimed author of "Black Robe." A near fine copy in an about very good dust jacket with a tear to the top front corner, some other small edge tears and minor wear and some creasing to the flaps.

N° de réf. du vendeur 186105

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Mangan Inheritance
• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
• Date de parution: 1979
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0374201943
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780374201944
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

Physical description; 336 p. ; 20 cm. Summary; James Mangan, discarded husband and failed poet, stumbles on a photograph of an Irish ancestor who was also a poet and bears a close physical resemblance to him. Fired by the coincidence, James sets off for Ireland - but for what? The author's successes include the W.H. Smith Literary Award. Subjects; English fiction. Modern fiction. Fiction / General. Genre; Fiction.

Biographie de l'auteur

Brian Moore (1921–1999) was born into a large, devoutly Catholic family in Belfast, Northern Ireland. His father was a surgeon and lecturer, and his mother had been a nurse. Moore left Ireland during World War II and in 1948 moved to Canada, where he worked for the Montreal Gazette, married his first wife, and began to write potboilers under various pen names, as he would continue to do throughout the 1950s. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1955, now available as an NYRB Classic), said to have been rejected by a dozen publishers, was the first book Moore published under his own name, and it was followed by nineteen subsequent novels written in a broad range of modes and styles, from the realistic to the historical to the quasi-fantastical, including The Luck of Ginger Coffey, An Answer from Limbo, The Emperor of Ice-Cream, I Am Mary Dunne, Catholics, Black Robe, and The Statement. Three novels—Lies of Silence, Color of Blood, and The Magician’s Wife—were short-listed for the Booker Prize, and The Great Victorian Collection won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. After adapting The Luck of Ginger Coffey for film in 1964, Moore moved to California to work on the script for Alfred Hitchcock’s Torn Curtain. He remained in Malibu for the rest of his life, remarrying there and teaching at UCLA for some fifteen years. Shortly before his death, Moore wrote, “There are those stateless wanderers who, finding the larger world into which they have stumbled vast, varied and exciting, become confused in their loyalties and lose their sense of home. I am one of those wanderers.”
Christopher Ricks teaches at Boston University and is a former president of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers. From 2004 to 2009 he was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. His most recent book is True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound.