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On a weeked visit to Carmel, California, Anthony had an extraordinary dream that was to overturn his entire life. He dreamt that a collection of priceless Victoriana appeared on a previously empty parking-lot outside his window of his hotel. This novel won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
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'A novel of great exuberance and inventiveness.' - Times Literary Supplement
'There can be no novelist writing today who can match him for imaginative scope.' - Anita Brookner Evening Standard
'Brian Moore has mastered the literary magic trick of making the weighty seem effortless and unadorned.' - New York Times
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.
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Great Victorian Collection
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Some wear to the wraps with a bump to the front top corner at the side edge. Mild page toning with foxing to the inner covers. Otherwise a clean, unmarked copy. Seller Inventory # ABE-1559591851930
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Great Victorian Collection
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Ballantine Books., USA, 1975
ISBN 10: 0345250001
ISBN 13: 9780345250001
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Painted Front Cover (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher,. 183 pages. From Wikipedia "it tells the story of a man who dreams that the empty parking lot he can see from his hotel window has been transformed by the arrival of a collection of priceless Victoriana on display in a vast open-air market. When he awakes he finds that he can no longer distinguish the dream from reality." >> Cover creasing; reading creasing to paper spine; Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 161415
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Great Victorian Collection
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ISBN 10: 0345250001
ISBN 13: 9780345250001
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