Brian Moore a créé une œuvre prolifique qui explore les thèmes de l'identité, de la foi et de l'aliénation. Ses romans, naviguant avec fluidité entre réalisme, cadres historiques et touches de fantastique, capturent les complexités de la psyché humaine. Moore explore fréquemment des états de déracinement, qu'ils soient ancrés dans la conviction religieuse ou dans la recherche d'un foyer dans un monde en constante expansion et diversité. Son écriture se caractérise par une perspicacité profonde et une voix narrative distinctive.
When Judith Hearne moves into her new lodgings, she meets James Madden, recently returned from New York, where he was "in the hotel business right on Times Square". Is she too late for love - or dare she let herself hope? Soon reality and fantasy become hopelessly mixed.
Diarmuid Devine is a teacher, and bachelor, destined for a lifetime of loneliness. One day he overhears a colleague mocking his sexual inexperience then he meets Una and a possible future appears. Set in an oppressive Belfast, stifled by religion and the conformity it imposes, Brian Moore explores the innocence, misunderstanding and consequences of Devines relationship with Una until rejection and the fear of scandal forces him to choose how he will live the rest of his life.
Father Paul Michel, a Canadian missionary on the poor Caribbean island of Ganae, rescues a little local boy from abject poverty, and sets him on the road towards a dramatic and dangerous future as a revolutionary priest and, later, as the first democratically elected leader in a land of dictators.
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A novel of female sexuality. Mary Lavery lives in New York, happily married to a distinguished British playwright, but there have been two previous husbands and a passionate Catholic girlhood. So who is Mary Lavery, nee Dunne? The author's successes include the W.H. Smith Literary Award.
Moore's suave professionalism elevates this lightweight, contrived search-for-identity novel. Jamie Mangan, a 36-year-old Canadian cub reporter and poet, inherits a fortune after the tragic death of his film star wife, Beatrice Abbot, who had recently left him for another man. Having spent years as "Mr. Beatrice Abbot" and feeling like a cuckold, Jamie desperately needs to reclaim his identity. Upon returning to Montreal, he discovers family documents, including a photograph of James Clarence Mangan, a 19th-century Irish poet who resembles him. This revelation prompts Jamie to travel to Ireland in search of personal identity. In the town of Dinshane, he encounters various Mangans, divided into two distinct groups: black sheep and white. The narrative unfolds as Jamie seeks to understand the origins of this behavioral divide, leading to revelations of incest, past traumas, and madness. While the plot may seem far-fetched, Moore's smooth storytelling engages readers throughout. The narrative's charm and the sentimental conclusion provide enjoyment, but the overall impact remains light and lacks depth.
"The story is told with . . . superb grace and wit."--The New Yorker "If reading it upsets you, do not be surprised. . . . Moore has eliminated our standard escapes from God--a secularized Kingdom or a romanticized past."--America "A neat and striking story."--Times Literary Supplement In the not-too-distant future, the Fourth Vatican Council has abolished private confession, clerical dress, and the Latin Mass, and opened discussions about a merger with Buddhism. Authorities in Rome are embarrassed by publicity surrounding a group of monks who stubbornly celebrate the old Mass in their island abbey off the coast of Ireland. The clever, assured Father James Kinsella is dispatched to set things right. At Muck Abbey he meets Abbot Tomás, a man plagued by doubt who nevertheless leads his monks in the old ways. In the hands of the masterly Brian Moore, their confrontation becomes a subtle, provocative parable of doubt and faith. Loyola Classics are new editions of acclaimed Catholic novels.
Black Robe , an account of the 17th-century encounter between the Huron and Iroquois the French called "Les Sauvages" and the French Jesuit missionaries the native people called "Blackrobes," is Brian Moore's most striking book. No other novel has so well captured both the intense--and disastrous--strangeness of each culture to one another, and their equal strangeness to our own much later understanding.
Awaiting her husband's arrival on holiday in France, Sheila Redden,quiet, middle-aged doctor's wife, suddenly finds herself caught up in a passionate affair with a young American, ten years her junior, this extraordinary powerful portrayal of a woman transformed by love was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Held against his will at a safe-house after an assassination attempt, Cardinal Bem is unsure whether his captors work for the government or for the Catholic Church
