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Feb 10, 2013 · Brian Moore's The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, a book about an alcoholic looking for love, is the novel that author Ann Leary always turns to when she's depressed.
- Ann Leary
In The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1955), Brian Moore creates a compelling and empathetic portrait of a a lonely, ageing spinster in drab 1950s Belfast who hides her weakness for alcohol from the world and herself.
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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 ...
So here we have a psychological horror story about the total disintegration of this lonely plain poor Irish woman who is in her 40s and entirely adrift, with no family and pretty much no friends (she thinks she has at least one family of friends but they cringe when she hoves into view).
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Aug 17, 2011 · 3.9 642 ratings. See all formats and editions. One of The Guardian’s “1,000 Books to Read Before You Die” This underrated classic of contemporary Irish literature tells the “utterly transfixing” story of a lonely, poverty-stricken spinster in 1950s Belfast (The Boston Globe)
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Jul 29, 2010 · Brian Moore’s The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, recently reissued by the New York Times Review of Books, was first published in 1955. It remains shockingly contemporary.
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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.
