Brian Moore
Brian Moore was born in Belfast. He emigrated to Canada in 1948 and then moved to California. He twice won the Canadian Governor General's Award for Fiction and has been given a special award from the United States Institute of Arts and Letters. He won the Author's Club First Novel Award for The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Great Victorian Collection . The Doctor's Wife , The Colour of Blood - winner of the Sunday Express 1988 Book of the Year ...See more
Brian Moore was born in Belfast. He emigrated to Canada in 1948 and then moved to California. He twice won the Canadian Governor General's Award for Fiction and has been given a special award from the United States Institute of Arts and Letters. He won the Author's Club First Novel Award for The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Great Victorian Collection . The Doctor's Wife , The Colour of Blood - winner of the Sunday Express 1988 Book of the Year - and Lies of Silence were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Five of his novels have been made into films - The Luck of Ginger Coffey , Catholics , The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne , Cold Heaven and Black Robe . Brian Moore died in 1999. See less
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Brian Moore book reviews
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The Emperor of Ice Cream
The Ulster "Portrait"
by deb74, Dec 3, 2009
That's what Heaney called his friend's novel, set in Belfast during WW II -- and I think he's right. What's more, it's funny (I can't really say that about Joyce in "Portrait" -- it's all too ... Read More
