The Mangan Inheritance

Moore, Brian

ISBN 10: 0374201943 / ISBN 13: 9780374201944

Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1979

First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. Seller Inventory # Q20OS-00301

Synopsis:

Thirty-six-year-old Jamie Mangan, an unsuccessful poet and sometime journalist, discovers that he may be descended from James Clarence Mangan, a drinkand drug-taking bohemian Irish poet of a century and a half ago, and sets out to investigate his ancestry

From the Publisher: 'The Mangan Inheritance is a marvellous book. The storytelling is faultless and I have read no book recently that had in greater measure that quality for which no superior word need be sought but "unputdownability"... a superb product of the imagination.' - Paul Ableman, Spectator

'A passionately detailed and evocative work ... what's exceptionally good is the way it sustains the powerful, simple idea of the quest inside the worrying, edgy details of a modern life.' - Hermione Lee, Observer

'Brian Moore is a highly intelligent writer who has the enviable ability to make you want to go on turning the pages.' - A. N. Wilson, Evening Standard

'Moore is one of the boldest and most inventive contemporary novelists.' - Literary Review

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Mangan Inheritance
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 1979
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: 1st Edition