The Mangan Inheritance

Brian Moore

ISBN 10: 0771064233 / ISBN 13: 9780771064234

Published by McClelland & Stewart, 1979

About this Item

Edgewear, with several very small tears, to jacket; rubbing wear to spine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Mangan Inheritance
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0771064233
• ISBN 13: 9780771064234
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
• Seller catalogs:
  • Novels

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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

About the Author

Brian Moore was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1921. He served with the Ministry of War in North Africa, Italy, and France during the Second World War. He emigrated to Canada in 1948 and worked as a newspaper reporter for the Montreal Gazette from 1948 until 1952.

While living in Canada, Moore wrote his first three novels, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, The Feast of Lupercal, and The Luck of Ginger Coffey, the first two set in Belfast, the third in Montreal. In 1959 he moved to the United States, but Canada continued to play a role in his later novels, including I Am Mary Dunne, The Great Victorian Collection, and Black Robe. His many honours included two Governor General’s Awards for Fiction.

Brian Moore died in Malibu, California, in 1999.