MANGAN INHERITANCE

Moore, Brian

ISBN 10: 0374201943 / ISBN 13: 9780374201944

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1979), New York, NY, 1979

About this Item

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. VG/G. (1979). First Printing. Cloth w/DJ. 8vo., 336 pp., dj rubbed, slightly toned inside dj .

Seller Inventory # BOOKS278865

Bibliographic Details

• Title: MANGAN INHERITANCE
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1979), New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374201943
• ISBN 13: 9780374201944
• Binding: Cloth w/DJ
• Illustrator: Not Illustrated
• Edition: First Printing.
• Condition: VG/G
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Thirty-six-year-old Jamie Mangan, an unsuccessful poet and sometime journalist, discovers that he may be descended from James Clarence Mangan, a drinkand drug-taking bohemian Irish poet of a century and a half ago, and sets out to investigate his ancestry

Review

‘The Mangan Inheritance is a marvellous book. The storytelling is faultless and I have read no book recently that had in greater measure that quality for which no superior word need be sought by ‘unputdownability’... a superb product of the imagination.’
Paul Ableman, Spectator

‘A passionately detailed and evocative work... what’s exceptionally good is the way it sustains the powerful, simple idea of the quest inside the worrying, edgy details of a modern life.’
Hermione Lee, Observer

‘Brian Moore is a highly intelligent writer who has the enviable ability to make you want to go on turning the pages.’
A. N. Wilson, Evening Standard

‘Moore is one of the boldest and most inventive contemporary novelists.’
Literary Review