by Brian Moore · IMPEDIMENTA EDITORIAL S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788415979357
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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, considered the most influential work by Irish novelist Brian Moore, tells the story of the self-destruction of an honest but weak woman in the gray Belfast of the post-war period. Judith Hearne is a woman of a certain age who does not know love, and who has gradually fallen into social disgrace. She is poor, although respectable, and lives in boarding houses. She has few friends and those she is closest to only tolerate her out of pity. Subjected to the prejudices and apprehensions of an education fearful of God and more concerned with appearances than with the achievement of happiness, confined to a sad and almost immobile city, what few people know is that Judith has a secret life, marked by the stigma of the bottle.
Brian Moore, was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland during and after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The Troubles, and has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel". He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1975 and the inaugural Sunday Express Book of the Year award in 1987, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. Moore also wrote screenplays and several of his books were made into films.
