{"product_id":"the-lonely-passion-of-judith-hearne-paperback","title":"The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrian Moore\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMary Gordon\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e's \u003cb\u003e\"1,000 Books to Read Before You Die\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis underrated classic of contemporary Irish literature tells the \"utterly transfixing\" story of a lonely, poverty-stricken spinster in 1950s Belfast (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJudith Hearne is an unmarried woman of a certain age who has come down in society. She has few skills and is full of the prejudices and pieties of her genteel Belfast upbringing. But Judith has a secret life. And she is just one heartbreak away from revealing it to the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHailed by Graham Greene, Thomas Flanagan, and Harper Lee alike, \u003ci\u003eThe Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne\u003c\/i\u003e 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 astute chronicler of the human soul. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Seldom in modern fiction has any character been revealed so completely or been made to seem so poignantly real.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrian Moore (1921-1999) was born into a large, devoutly Catholic family in Belfast, Northern Ireland. His father was a surgeon and lecturer, and his mother had been a nurse. Moore left Ireland during World War II, serving in Europe and North Africa. In 1948 he moved to Canada, where he worked for the Montreal Gazette, married his first wife, and began to write potboilers under various pen names, as he would continue to do throughout the 1950s. Judith Hearne (1955, later retitled The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne), said to have been rejected by a dozen publishers, was the first book Moore published under his own name, and it was followed by nineteen subsequent novels written in a broad range of modes and styles, from the realistic to the historical to the quasi-fantastical, including The Luck of Ginger Coffey, An Answer from Limbo, The Emperor of Ice-Cream, I Am Mary Dunne, Catholics, Black Robe, and The Statement. Three novels--Lies of Silence, Color of Blood, The Magician's Wife--were short-listed for the Booker Prize, and The Great Victorian Collection won the James\u003cbr\u003eTait Black Memorial Prize. After adapting The Luck of Ginger Coffey for film in 1964, Moore moved to California to work on the script for Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain. He remained in Malibu for the rest of his life, remarrying there and teaching at UCLA for some fifteen years. Shortly before his death, Moore wrote, \"there are those stateless wanderers who, finding the larger world into which they have stumbled vast, varied and exciting, become confused in their loyalties and lose their sense of home. I am one of those wanderers.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMary Gordon is the author of the novels Spending, The Company of Women, The Rest of Life, Final Payments, The Other Side, and Pearl; the short-story collections Temporary Shelter and The Stories of Mary Gordon; and the memoir The Shadow Man. She has received a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 1997 O. Henry Award for best story. She teaches at Barnard College and lives in New York City.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 8 x 5.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 15, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771232190752,"sku":"9781590173497","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/11a195e96f190f5ac184ee76abcb424c.webp?v=1780383593","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-lonely-passion-of-judith-hearne-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}