by Brian Moore · Flamingo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006548355
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«I am Mary Dunne» is the novel by Irish-Canadian author Brian Moore, published by Flamingo in 1995 in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Mary Dunne, a woman in her mid-thirties, lives in New York, married to a British playwright. An unexpected encounter with an old friend brings back memories of her two previous marriages and her Catholic youth. The novel explores female desire, memory, and the elusive nature of identity.
The novel originally appeared in 1968. Brian Moore was born in Belfast in 1921 and emigrated to Canada in 1948.
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.
