Moore, Brian (Vol. 7) - Moore, Brian 1921–

Moore, Brian 1921–

Best known for his compassionate depiction of misfits, as in The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne and The Luck of Ginger Coffey, Moore is an Irish-born novelist who has lived in both Canada and the United States. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)

In [The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne], his first novel, Brian Moore has done his native Belfast somewhat the same service James Joyce did his native Dublin: he has taken an Irish city and laid bare its most secret soul through characters who could not have been born elsewhere…. At the end of Mr. Moore's novel, Judith Hearne has lost everything—her pride, her friends, her faith—but she has lost them on Belfast's terms and we know that it is on Belfast's terms alone she will continue, however, wretchedly, to live. The city is not a place: it is a colossus that creates, shapes, and then devours its children.

And Mr. Moore's...

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