I Am Mary Dunne
1968 novel From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1968 novel From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I Am Mary Dunne is a novel, first published in 1968, by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore about one day in the life of a beautiful and well-to-do 31-year-old Canadian woman living in New York City with her third husband, a successful playwright. Triggered by seemingly unimportant occurrences, the protagonist / first person narrator remembers her past in a series of flashbacks, which reveal her insecurities, her bad conscience concerning her first two husbands, and her fear that she is on the brink of insanity.
Author | Brian Moore |
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Publisher | Jonathan Cape |
Publication date | 19 June 1968 (US); 17 October 1968 (UK) |
Preceded by | The Emperor of Ice-Cream (1965) |
Followed by | Fergus (1970) |
I Am Mary Dunne has been described as "perhaps [Brian Moore's] best book".[1] Robert Fulford, writing in Canada's The Globe and Mail, calls it "[a] feminist novel written before the wave of feminist novels began".[2]
In its original draft, I Am Mary Dunne was called A Woman of No Identity.[3]
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