Description
First edition, first impression. Fine in near fine dustwrapper which has been price-clipped and replaced with the publisher’s revised price label. Signed by the author to the title page. Brian Moore was born in August in 1921. He moved to Canada in 1948 where he worked as a reporter until moving to the United States in 1959. His first novel Judith Hearne was made into a film starring Dame Maggie Smith. In 1975 The Great Victorian Collection won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times: The Doctor’s Wife in 1976; The Colour of Blood in1987; Lies of Silence in 1990. Brian Moore died at his home in Malibu, California in 1999 aged 77.
Published: Jonathan Cape, 1979
