An Answer from Limbo (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Brian Moore
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Authors or writers, New York City, Religion, Alienation, Ambition, Catholics or Catholic Church, Ireland or Irish people
- Locales: New York, NY
In An Answer from Limbo, Brendan Tierney, a thirty-year-old Irishman who has emigrated to New York City, is supporting himself, his wife, and their two bratty children by working for a magazine while also trying to write his first novel. Moved to competitive action by a younger friend's announcement that his own novel will soon be published, Brendan hits on what he regards as a great solution to speeding his creative career: He brings his mother from Belfast to look after the children, encourages his wife, Jane, to take a job, quits his own, and devotes himself unreservedly to...
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