This volume is part of a series of novels, plays and stories at GCSE/Key Stage 4 level, designed to meet the needs of the National Curriculum syllabus. Each text includes an introduction, pre-reading activities, notes and coursework activities. Also provided is a section on the process of writing, often compiled by the author.
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About the Author:
Brian Moore was born in Belfast. He emigrated to Canada in 1948 and then moved to California. He twice won the Candian Governor General's Award for Fiction and has been given a special award from the United States Institute of Arts and Letters. He won the Author's Club First Novel Award for The Lonely Passion of Judith Heanre and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Great Victorian Collection. The Doctor's Wife, The Colour of Blood - winner of the Sunday Express 1988 Book of the Year - and Lies of Silence were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Five of his novels have been made into films - The Luck of Ginger Coffey, Catholics, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, Cold Heaven and Black Robe. Brian Moore died in 1999.
About the Author:
BRIAN MOORE was born in Belfast in 1921 and emigrated to Canada in 1948, where he worked as a journalist and adopted Canadian citizenship. He now lives in California. His first novel, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, was published in 1955. Five of his books have been made into films, most recently Cold Heaven and Black Robe. His fiction won the Author's Club First Novel Award, the W.H. Smith Literary Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Governor General's Award, and a special award from the United States Institute of Arts and Letters. Lies of Silence was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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- PublisherLongman
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 058208170X
- ISBN 13 9780582081703
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages232
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