Brian Moore is often discussed as one of the last modern practitioners of fiction in the realist mode, and indeed realist is an apt description of most of his novels. In a handful of his works, however, he abandons the strictly mimetic in favor of the...

BRIAN Moore, who died in the final year of the twentieth century is increasingly seen as one of the most perceptive novelists of that troubled era. He was born in Belfast on 25th August 1921 and was raised in a devout Catholic family, with...

Brian Moore: A Biography by Patricia Craig Bloomsbury, pounds 20, 310 pp pounds 18 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 BRIAN MOORE was a prolific, versatile and successful novelist. Between 1955 and his death in 1999 he published...

Passengers on a bus traveling from New York to Boston claim the driver kept the bus on a layover for an extra half hour and would not let them leave because he was upset about a complaint over his driving.The Peter Pan Bus Lines driver...

In the mid-1980's, someone asked the late Thomas Flanagan if he'd he read Erica Jong's last novel. "I definitely hope so," he replied.He was a man of lightning wit and great learning. His first novel, The Year of the French (1979), won a National Book...

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Dahlie is a Canadian critic and educator who has written extensively on Moore's works. In the following essay, originally presented at the International Conference of the Canadian Association for Irish Studies in February 1985 and subsequently revised, he discusses Moore's portrayal of exile in several of his novels, short stories, and essays.

In the following interview, conducted in 1982 during the James Joyce Centenary in Toronto, Canada, Moore discusses the treatment of political and religious issues in his novels, and explains why he prefers straightforward narrative to experimental fiction.