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Reviewing the novel for ''[[The Independent]]'', its critic Tom Adair said: "No Other Life dovetails questions of allegiance, tests of faith and the clash of cultures into a fiction of ideas tied at its heart to real lives lived. It is Moore's best work by far since Black Robe; at times it bites like a truly great novel. If pleasure indeed corrupts the soul, then this very novel is a 24 carat sin."<ref name= Adair/> |
Reviewing the novel for ''[[The Independent]]'', its critic Tom Adair said: "No Other Life dovetails questions of allegiance, tests of faith and the clash of cultures into a fiction of ideas tied at its heart to real lives lived. It is Moore's best work by far since Black Robe; at times it bites like a truly great novel. If pleasure indeed corrupts the soul, then this very novel is a 24 carat sin."<ref name= Adair/> |
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. in the ''[[New York Times]]'' described it as "a brilliant meditation on spiritual indeterminacy, on the struggle between religious and temporal faith -- on the question of how (or even whether) religious belief should be expressed in the political realm".<ref name="Gates">{{cite news | url=http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/10/specials/moore-life.html | title=The Sword And the Savior | work=[[New York Times]] | date=12 September 1993 | accessdate=8 April 2013 | author=Henry Louis Gates Jr}}</ref> |
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| Author | Brian Moore |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Doubleday (US) Bloomsbury (UK) Knopf (Canada) |
No Other Life is a novel by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore, published in 1993.
The novel is set in the future, on the fictional Caribbean island of Ganae (based loosely on Haiti).[1] The story is told by Father Paul Michel, a Canadian missionary to Ganae, as a letter to himself about the life he has led.[1] Father Paul supports a young priest, Jeannot, in his rebellion against Ganae's despotic ruler Uncle D.
Reception
Reviewing the novel for The Independent, its critic Tom Adair said: "No Other Life dovetails questions of allegiance, tests of faith and the clash of cultures into a fiction of ideas tied at its heart to real lives lived. It is Moore's best work by far since Black Robe; at times it bites like a truly great novel. If pleasure indeed corrupts the soul, then this very novel is a 24 carat sin."[1]
Henry Louis Gates Jr. in the New York Times described it as "a brilliant meditation on spiritual indeterminacy, on the struggle between religious and temporal faith -- on the question of how (or even whether) religious belief should be expressed in the political realm".[2]
References
- ^ a b c Tom Adair (13 March 1993). "BOOK REVIEW / A mad little plaster saint: 'No Other Life' - Brian Moore; Bloomsbury, 14.99". London: The Independent. Retrieved 17 November 2011.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Henry Louis Gates Jr (12 September 1993). "The Sword And the Savior". New York Times. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
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