by Brian Moore · Addison Wesley · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582081703
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«Lies of Silence» is the novel by Brian Moore, published by Addison Wesley in paperback (232 pages, in English).
Michael Dillon is forced to choose between options that, in any case, will make someone pay a very high price. The novel's tension rests on the question of which life he values more, a dilemma that conditions the entire narrative.
«Lies of Silence» belongs to the Longman Literature series (Novels); the 1991 edition includes an introduction, pre-reading activities, notes, and a section on the writing process.
«Lies of Silence» is suitable reading for secondary school students (Key Stage 4/GCSE) and for those interested in Irish suspense fiction.
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.
