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I am Mary Dunne

Brian Moore author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:2nd Feb '12

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Brian Moore is a critically acclaimed author who has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. Six of his novels have been turned into films. Reissued to coincide with the new look for Brian Moore's backlist

By the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Lies of SilenceWho am I any more? All these names, who am I?

After three marriages and four last names, Mary, a neurotic woman in her thirties, finds herself struggling to remember her own name and losing her sense of self. But what she does want to forget, she is condemned to remember - the last days of her relationship with Hat Bell, her depressive, alcoholic second husband, and her sense of responsibility for his death.

As friends from the past resurface, these unwanted memories return full force and Mary finds herself desperately battling her inner torment. A powerful portrait of a woman struggling to reaffirm her sense of self, I am Mary Dunne is a compelling exploration of neurosis and obsessive love.

‘An extraordinary piece of feminine characterisation' * Sunday Times *
‘I can think of no other living male novelist who writes about women with such sympathy and understanding' * Times Literary Supplement *
‘As complex and satisfying as anything Moore has yet done' * Observer *
‘One of the truest and most awesome books I have ever read' * Scotsman *

ISBN: 9781408827031

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 177g

256 pages