The Mangan Inheritance

Moore, Brian

ISBN 10: 0771064233 / ISBN 13: 9780771064234

Published by McClelland and Stewart, Toronto

About this Item

[0-7710-6423-3] 1979, 1st Canadian edition. (hardcover) Fine in near fine dust jacket. 335p, [1]. 8vo. Dark blue cloth boards; lettering in silver to spine. Top edge faintly coloured orange. Dust jacket NOT price clipped; mylar protected. At some point, someone attempted to repair two small closed tears at the head of the rear of the dust jacket. This tape was later removed leaving two small spots of surface paper loss on the front and two small spots of discolouration on verso. Volume tight, bright, and clean.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Mangan Inheritance
• Publisher: McClelland and Stewart, Toronto
• ISBN 10: 0771064233
• ISBN 13: 9780771064234
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature And Fiction

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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.