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'''''The Revolution Script''''' ([[1971 in literature|1971]]) is a fictionalised account by [[Northern Irish]]-[[Canadian]] novelist [[Brian Moore (novelist)|Brian Moore]] of the kidnapping by the [[Quebec Liberation Front]] of [[James Cross]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0005416|title=Moore, Brian| publisher=''[[The Canadian Encyclopaedia]]''|year= 2011|accessdate= November 3, 2011}}</ref> the Senior British Trade Commissioner in [[Montreal]], on October 5, 1970<ref>[http://www.histori.ca/peace/page.do?pageID=342 The October Crisis]. ''HISTOR!CA''. Retrieved 5 Oct 2010.</ref> and the murder, a few days later, of [[Pierre Laporte]], Minister of Labour in the [[Politics of Quebec|Quebec provincial government]]. Ian McGillis, for the ''[[Montreal Gazette]]'', described it as " a kind of docu-novel that places the reader in the middle of the October Crisis with an immediacy that makes it feel like this morning’s news".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2012/03/23/cbc-radio-ones-ten-essential-books-where-lucy-maud-montgomery-meets-the-rhinoceros-party/|title=CBC Radio One’s Ten Essential Books: where Lucy Maud Montgomery meets the Rhinoceros Party|publisher= ''[[Montreal Gazette]]''|author= McGillis, Ian|date= 23 March 2012|accessdate= 28 August 2012}}</ref> |
'''''The Revolution Script''''' ([[1971 in literature|1971]]) is a fictionalised account by [[Northern Irish]]-[[Canadian]] novelist [[Brian Moore (novelist)|Brian Moore]] of the kidnapping by the [[Quebec Liberation Front]] of [[James Cross]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0005416|title=Moore, Brian| publisher=''[[The Canadian Encyclopaedia]]''|year= 2011|accessdate= November 3, 2011}}</ref> the Senior British Trade Commissioner in [[Montreal]], on October 5, 1970<ref>[http://www.histori.ca/peace/page.do?pageID=342 The October Crisis]. ''HISTOR!CA''. Retrieved 5 Oct 2010.</ref> and the murder, a few days later, of [[Pierre Laporte]], Minister of Labour in the [[Politics of Quebec|Quebec provincial government]]. |
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Ian McGillis, for the ''[[Montreal Gazette]]'', described it as " a kind of docu-novel that places the reader in the middle of the October Crisis with an immediacy that makes it feel like this morning’s news".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2012/03/23/cbc-radio-ones-ten-essential-books-where-lucy-maud-montgomery-meets-the-rhinoceros-party/|title=CBC Radio One’s Ten Essential Books: where Lucy Maud Montgomery meets the Rhinoceros Party|publisher= ''[[Montreal Gazette]]''|author= McGillis, Ian|date= 23 March 2012|accessdate= 28 August 2012}}</ref> |
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Jeanne Flood said that it was "the most flawed and disturbing of all Moore's books" and described its "explicit concern with media" as "nothing less than obsessive". She criticised as "unethical" Moore's "projection of the deeply personal onto public events involving real persons" and argued that the subject matter of the book "demands the scrupulous impersonality of the journalist, not the private emotional energies of the novelist".<ref name="Flood">{{cite book | title=Brian Moore | publisher=[[Bucknell University Press]] – Irish Writers Series | author=Flood, Jeanne | year=1974 | location=[[Lewisburg]] | pages=89-92}}</ref> |
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| Author | Brian Moore |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Historical novel |
| Publisher | Holt, Rinehart and Winston |
Publication date | 1971 |
| Publication place | Canada |
| Pages | 261 |
| ISBN | 0030867436 |
| Preceded by | Fergus (1970) |
| Followed by | Catholics (1972) |
The Revolution Script (1971) is a fictionalised account by Northern Irish-Canadian novelist Brian Moore of the kidnapping by the Quebec Liberation Front of James Cross,[1] the Senior British Trade Commissioner in Montreal, on October 5, 1970[2] and the murder, a few days later, of Pierre Laporte, Minister of Labour in the Quebec provincial government.
Reception and criticism
Ian McGillis, for the Montreal Gazette, described it as " a kind of docu-novel that places the reader in the middle of the October Crisis with an immediacy that makes it feel like this morning’s news".[3]
Jeanne Flood said that it was "the most flawed and disturbing of all Moore's books" and described its "explicit concern with media" as "nothing less than obsessive". She criticised as "unethical" Moore's "projection of the deeply personal onto public events involving real persons" and argued that the subject matter of the book "demands the scrupulous impersonality of the journalist, not the private emotional energies of the novelist".[4]
References
- ^ "Moore, Brian". The Canadian Encyclopaedia. 2011. Retrieved November 3, 2011.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ The October Crisis. HISTOR!CA. Retrieved 5 Oct 2010.
- ^ McGillis, Ian (23 March 2012). "CBC Radio One's Ten Essential Books: where Lucy Maud Montgomery meets the Rhinoceros Party". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Flood, Jeanne (1974). Brian Moore. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press – Irish Writers Series. pp. 89–92.
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