Brian Moore (novelist) Summary

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, howeve... Read more

In the following essay, Aldiss comments on his innovative and often controversial view that science fiction is "only a department of fantasy" fiction. And of course literary pariahs don&... Read more

In the following excerpt, Mathews examines the thematic and stylistic characteristics of Aldiss's major works, including the author's use of satire and irony. [Aldiss] finds the boundari... Read more

In the following excerpted review of New Arrivals, Old Encounters, Disch offers a mixed assessment of the stories, arguing that the quality of Aldiss's writing is uneven and the stories in the ... Read more

In the following essay, Collings analyzes the novella Brothers of the Head, revealing the psychological elements of the narrative and lauding the book's structure and treatment of the human con... Read more

Critical Essay by Kerry Mcsweeney One of the most impressive features of Moore's canon has been his ability to keep from repeating himself. Over and over again he has found fresh inventions whi... Read more

Critical Essay by Tim Pat Coogan Moore's latest novel The Mangan Inheritance, is an "entertainment," most of which I found highly entertaining. Most, but not all. It has every Iri... Read more

Critical Essay by Richard Stengel The second half of Brian Moore's disappointing new novel, The Mangan Inheritance, takes place on the ould sod, as the style shifts from that of a conventional ... Read more

Critical Essay by John Mellors Brian Moore has a great wallow in Irishness in The Mangan Inheritance before his protagonist rejects his Irish ancestry, condemns the verses of the early 19th century po... Read more

Critical Essay by Val Clery Brian Moore is the most extraordinary and the most professional of Canada's writers. In 26 years he has published 12 novels of high literary quality, earning himself... Read more

Critical Essay by Kerry Mcsweeney The dust-jacket of Cold Heaven … claims that it shows [Moore] "at the very height of his powers." The sad truth is quite otherwise. In Moore�... Read more

Critical Essay by Christopher Lehmann-haupt We enter Brian Moore's tautly dramatic new novel ["The Temptation of Eileen Hughes"] … through the eyes of Eileen Hughes, a 20-y... Read more

Critical Essay by Francis King Brian Moore must always be a cause both of bewilderment and of envy to his fellow novelists. Whereas other modern Irish writers fizz and flash with stylistic intoxicatio... Read more

Critical Essay by David Macfarlane [In Cold Heaven, Brian Moore] quickly has his readers on the edge of their seats. A young doctor, Alex Davenport, and his wife, Marie, spend a brief holiday in Nice,... Read more

Foster is a Canadian critic and educator who has written extensively on Anglo-Irish literature. In the following essay, he examines the central characters in Moore's early novels who, after bei... Read more

Ascherson is a Scottish-born English critic and journalist. In the following review, he praises Moore's astute, humane, and suspenseful depiction of Polish religious and political crises in The... Read more

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 f... Read more

Prose is an American novelist, short story writer, and educator. In the following excerpt, she commends the suspenseful plotting, austere prose, and "thematic weight" of Lies of Silence.... Read more

Banville is an acclaimed Irish novelist, short story writer, and critic whose works include Long Lankin (1970), Mefisto (1986), and Ghosts (1993). In the following review, Banville offers a negative a... Read more

In the following review, Dahlie praises the suspenseful plotting in Lies of Silence and commends Moore's insistence that individual moral choices produce social consequences. [Lies of Silence i... Read more

Gates is an American critic and educator who has written extensively on African-American and third-world black literature. In the following highly positive review of No Other Life, he compares Moore&#... Read more

Trevor is an acclaimed Irish short story writer, novelist, dramatist, and memoirist. In the following review, he commends the subtly detailed evocation of time and place and the insightful characteriz... Read more

An Excerpt from the Luck of Ginger Coffey Not even able to enjoy a bit of music. Bloody females! He lay back, entering a world where no earthly women were. In that world soft houris moved, small wome... Read more

In the following positive review of The Color of Blood, Conway contends that, though character development suffers somewhat due to the demands of Moore's thriller format, the tautly paced novel... Read more