No Other Life (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Brian Moore
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The mid to late 1980’s
- Setting: The imaginary island of Ganae; northern Quebec; and Rome
- Principal Characters: Jean-Paul Cantave, Father Paul Michel, Father Bourque, Colonel Maurras, Caroline Lambert
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Caribbean, Biracial people, Courage, Religion, Islands, Presidents, Christ figures or saviors
- Locales: Islands, Rome, Italy, Quebec, Canada
In No Other Life, his eighteenth novel, Brian Moore continues his treatment of themes and contexts first introduced in The Color of Blood (1987) and revisited in Lies of Silence (1990). Readers familiar with Moore’s work will not find the themes of these works unfamiliar. Their preoccupation with the substance and adequacy of their protagonists’ inner life, particularly at periods of development or transition, has been a mainstay of this author’s fiction since the beginning of his career. The difference in his later work is the translation of these...
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