The Mangan Inheritance

Moore, Brian

ISBN 10: 0224017470 / ISBN 13: 9780224017473

Published by Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1979

About this Item

Near Fine First Edition, first impression in a Near Fine priceclipped DJ.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Mangan Inheritance
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224017470
• ISBN 13: 9780224017473
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

James Mangan, discarded husband and failed poet, stumbles on a photograph of an Irish ancestor who was also a poet and bears a close physical resemblance to him. Fired by the coincidence, James sets off for Ireland.

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