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Feb 10, 2013 · Book Review: 'The Lonely Passion Of Judith Hearne' By Brian Moore Brian Moore's The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, a book about an alcoholic looking for love, is the novel that author Ann Leary ...
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3,295 ratings424 reviews. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne is an unflinching and deeply sympathetic portrait of a woman destroyed by self and circumstance. First published in 1955, it marked Brian Moore as a major figure in English literature (he would go on to be short-listed three times for the Booker Prize) and established him as an ...
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The most intimate moment in "The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne" is one played between the heroine and a bottle of whiskey. She retreats to her lonely room in a sad Dublin boarding house, locks the door and runs to her closet and finds the bottle where it has been hidden away during all the recent days of happiness, waiting quietly until she would need it again.
Mar 5, 2024 · That is how I discovered ‘The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne‘. I found the title very haunting and that is why I got the book. Later I discovered that it was Brian Moore’s centenary and readers were celebrating it. I wanted to read this book at that time, but couldn’t. I finally got to read it now. Judith Hearne is a forty-something woman.
Jul 2, 2010 · The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore (1955) NYRB Classics (2010) 230 pp I admit that I bought The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne primarily because of the great cover NYRB Classics gave it on their recently released edition. Of course, it helps that the book is an NYRB Classic. When you trust
Aug 17, 2011 · — San Francisco Chronicle “Brian Moore [wrote] a superb first novel; The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne reads as freshly, and as heart-breakingly, today as it did when it first appeared in 1955.” —John Banville “ The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne is, to my notion, everything a novel should be.” —Harper Lee, The New York Times ...
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Apr 29, 2021 · The Brian Moore at 100 Read-Along continues this month, with his debut and best-known novel The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne. I’ve had a hard time pulling my thoughts together to review this, for several reasons. Firstly, a lot of people have already shared their thoughts (very eloquently) on this, Moore’s most read and most revered book ...
