Moore, Brian (Vol. 5) - Moore, Brian 1921–
Moore, Brian 1921–
Moore, an Irish-born Canadian novelist living in New York, is widely acclaimed for his sensitive delineation of the inner struggles of his frail and luckless characters. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
At the end of Brian Moore's … novel, Catholics…, an abbot kneels in front of the tabernacle in the abbey church to lead his monks in prayer. He believes the tabernacle to be empty; he knows that the effect of his prayer will be his own experience of horror at the emptiness of the universe. In Moore's first book published in 1955 [The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne], a neurotic spinster appalled by her growing conviction that the tabernacle is empty, blasphemously assaults it in an effort to discover if God is inside. The question of the vacancy of the tabernacle or its overwhelming fullness lies at the center of Moore's work, for to that question are tied two others with which he has...
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