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      The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

      by Brian Moore
      Published
      Feb 1983
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      230
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      One of The Guardian's "1,000 Books to Read Before You Die"

      This underrated classic of contemporary Irish literature tells the "utterly transfixing" story of a lonely, poverty-stricken spinster in 1950s Belfast (The Boston Globe)

      Judith Hearne is an unmarried woman of a certain age who has come down in society. She has few skills and is full of the prejudices and pieties of her genteel Belfast upbringing. But Judith has a secret life. And she is just one heartbreak away from revealing it to the world.

      Hailed by Graham Greene, Thomas Flanagan, and Harper Lee alike, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne is an unflinching and deeply sympathetic portrait of a woman destroyed by self and circumstance. First published in 1955, it marked Brian Moore as a major figure in English literature (he would go on to be short-listed three times for the Booker Prize) and established him as an astute chronicler of the human soul.

      "Seldom in modern fiction has any character been revealed so completely or been made to seem so poignantly real." —The New York Times

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      First Edition Feb 1983 Pocket ISBN13 9780671467180 ISBN10 0671467182
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      Feb 1988 Back Bay ISBN13 9780316579667 ISBN10 0316579661
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      Nov 1988 New Canadian Library ISBN13 9780771099922 ISBN10 0771099924
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      Sep 1999 Back Bay ISBN13 9780316579810 ISBN10 0316579815
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      Jul 2007 HarperPerennial (UK) ISBN13 9780007255610 ISBN10 0007255616
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      Jan 2010 McClelland & Stewart (Canada) ISBN13 9780771061356 ISBN10 0771061358
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      Jun 2010 New York Review of Books ISBN13 9781590173497 ISBN10 159017349X
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      Jul 1993 Bloomsbury ISBN13 9780747516002 ISBN10 0747516006
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      Aug 2011 New York Review Books ISBN13 9781590174203 ISBN10 1590174208
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      Aug 2011 NYRB Classics ISBN10 B004J4WLMI
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      Oct 2012 HarperCollins (UK) ISBN13 9780007405909 ISBN10 0007405901
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      Aug 1992 Chivers Audio Books ISBN13 9781560549215 ISBN10 1560549211
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      Mar 1989 ISIS Large Print Books ISBN13 9781850892731 ISBN10 1850892733
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