The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Brian Moore
- First Published: 1955
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Love or romance, Religion, Poverty or poor people, Women’s issues, Alcohol, Women, Single people, Loneliness, Ireland or Irish people, Hospitals
- Locales: Belfast, Northern Ireland
In The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, Moore's first novel, he introduces all the themes that will flower in his distinguished career. He takes a large risk by making his protagonist an unmarried, plain, narrow-minded woman over forty who is impoverished, lonely, conventionally pious, and secretly alcoholic. He is tender with her, even inviting the reader to like her as he describes in impressive detail her confused interior life. Honoré de Balzac would have made her a villain, as he did the brooding title character in La Cousine Bette (1846; Cousin Bette);...
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