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.
A white Peugot makes its way between the monasteries of Southern France. No one would suspect its driver to be the target of commando hitmen, the Gendarmerie's most wanted man or a public enemy sentenced twice to death for crimes against humanity.
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.
A funny and forthright collection of writings about sport from one of our most admired, and outspoken, commentators
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.
A scorching and deeply personal autobiography, lifting the lid on the life and character of one of English rugby's most successful ever players.
Moore's suave, ample professionalism is the saving grace of this lightweight, rather contrived Search-for-identity novel. Jamie Mangan, 36, only a young Canadian cub reporter and poet when he first met and married film star Beatrice Abbot years ago, is left with all her considerable monies after she's killed in a car crash (along with the man she'd only recently left Jamie for). After all these years of being Mr. Beatrice Abbot, as well as a cuckold, Jamie is sorely in need of an ego-transplant. Then, on a visit home to Montreal after Beatrice's death, he finds among his father's possessions some Mangan family documents, including a photograph of James Clarence Mangan, a 19th-century Irish versifier popularly considered "Europe's first poete maudite" - and, astoundingly, the spitting image of Jamie himself. So, newly wealthy and independent, Jamie hies himself off to Ireland in search of this new avenue of personal identity. In the little town of Dinshane, he finds Mangans aplenty, but of two separate strands: black sheep and white. It takes the rest of the book to figure out the origins of this discrepancy in behavior and outlook, ending in a revelation of incest, past gruesome injuries, and madness - pure hokum, but for the fact that Moore waltzes you so smoothly into it. Appreciate the narrative savoir-faire; enjoy even the shamelessly sentimental ending; but don't expect much grab or impact from this stylish roots-digging trifle.
"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.
His name is Father Laforgue, a young Jesuit missionary come from Europe to the New World to bring the word of God to the heathen. He is given minimal aid by the governor of the vast territory that is proudly named New France but is in reality still ruled by the Huron, Iroquois, and Algonkin tribes who have roamed it since the dawn of time and whom the French call Savages. His mission is to reach and bring salvation to an isolatied Huron tribe decimated by disease in the far north before incoming winter closes off his path to them. His guides are a group of Savages who mock his faith and their pledges even as they accept muskets as their payment. Father Laforgue is about to enter a world of pagan power and sexual license, awesome courage and terrible cruelty, that will test him to the breaking point as both a man and a priest, and alter him in ways he cannot dream. In weaving a tautly suspenseful tale of physical and spiritual adventure in a wilderness frontier on the cusp of change, Brian Moore has written a novel that rivals Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in its exploration of the confrontation between Western ideology and native peoples, and its meditation upon Good and Evil in the human heart.
