Lies of Silence

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'My unconscious method is to find the moment of crisis.' - Brian Moore For Michael Dillon the moment comes just as he is making a decision which he expects to bring him the greatest happiness he's ever known. An ordinary man trying to get on with his life, he now finds himself suddenly on the edge, faced with a morál choice which leaves him absolutely nowhere to turn. The expectation of happiness is replaced by a nightmare maze of dead ends. Brian Moore's new növel addresses the starkest questions of right and wrong, and the skeins of plot are tightened to a pitch of suspense that leaves the reader breathless. To say that it is his best yet is praise of a hyperbolic order, yet this is the culmination of an extraordinarily fertile career. And it is, all too crucially, a book for our times. Brian Moore, whom Graham Greene has called his 'favourite living novelist', was born in Belfast. He emigrated to Canada in 1948, where he became a journalist and adopted Canadian citizenship. He... Tovább

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'My unconscious method is to find the moment of crisis.' - Brian Moore For Michael Dillon the moment comes just as he is making a decision which he expects to bring him the greatest happiness he's ever known. An ordinary man trying to get on with his life, he now finds himself suddenly on the edge, faced with a morál choice which leaves him absolutely nowhere to turn. The expectation of happiness is replaced by a nightmare maze of dead ends. Brian Moore's new növel addresses the starkest questions of right and wrong, and the skeins of plot are tightened to a pitch of suspense that leaves the reader breathless. To say that it is his best yet is praise of a hyperbolic order, yet this is the culmination of an extraordinarily fertile career. And it is, all too crucially, a book for our times. Brian Moore, whom Graham Greene has called his 'favourite living novelist', was born in Belfast. He emigrated to Canada in 1948, where he became a journalist and adopted Canadian citizenship. He spent somé time in New York and then moved to California where he now lives. Four of his novels, The Luck of Ginger Coffey, Catholics, The Lonely Passión ofjudith Hearne, and Cold Heaven have been made into íilms. Brian Moore has twice won the Canadian Governor General's Award for Fiction and has been given a special award from the United States Institute of Arts and Letters. He won the Authors' Club First Növel Award for The Lonely Passión ofjudith Hearne, and the W.H. Smith Literary Award for Catholics, and the James Tait Black Memóriái Prize for The Great Victorian Collection. The Doctor's Wife and The Colour of Blood were both shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and The Colour of Blood was the Sunday Express Book of the Year for 1988. Vissza