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The ''[[New York Magazine]]'' described it as a "wonderful union of clarity and inventiveness".<ref name="NYM">{{cite news | url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HOQCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77&dq=The+Mangan+Inheritance&source=bl&ots=Uk0n5fArfc&sig=3Cf0KJieqfN2M-Zu-sofP1vIs8Q&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8aNkUcOeL4Ss0QXFh4GoCg&ved=0CGAQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=The%20Mangan%20Inheritance&f=false | title=Romantic Ireland? Dead and Gone | work=[[New York Magazine]] | date=December 31, 1979 | accessdate=April 10, 2013 | author=Darcy O'Brien}}</ref> |
The ''[[New York Magazine]]'' described it as a "wonderful union of clarity and inventiveness".<ref name="NYM">{{cite news | url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HOQCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77&dq=The+Mangan+Inheritance&source=bl&ots=Uk0n5fArfc&sig=3Cf0KJieqfN2M-Zu-sofP1vIs8Q&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8aNkUcOeL4Ss0QXFh4GoCg&ved=0CGAQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=The%20Mangan%20Inheritance&f=false | title=Romantic Ireland? Dead and Gone | work=[[New York Magazine]] | date=December 31, 1979 | accessdate=April 10, 2013 | author=Darcy O'Brien}}</ref> |
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Patricia Craig, in her biography of Brian Moore, says that ''The Mangan Inheritance'' is "among other things, a satire on the impulse to track down one's ancestors, on romantic Ireland, and on poetic pretensions".<ref name="Craig">{{cite book | url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=L6hJZOuRelUC&pg=PA233&lpg=PA233&dq=The+Closing+Ritual++brian+moore&source=bl&ots=hDc5ISB42r&sig=uPrGll_1G3Yf86ZJfU2ObvFrEKU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jOZYU7v8BYrFPLDDgaAP&ved=0CFYQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=The%20Closing%20Ritual%20%20brian%20moore&f=false | title=Brian Moore: A Biography | publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing|Bloomsbury]] | author=Craig, Patricia | year=2002 | location=London | pages=233 | isbn=0 7475 6844 8}}</ref> |
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| Author | Brian Moore |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (US) Jonathan Cape (UK) McClelland & Stewart (Canada) |
Publication date | 1979 |
| Pages | 335 |
| ISBN | 0-374-20194-3 |
| OCLC | 5007480 |
The Mangan Inheritance, published in 1979, is a novel by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore. Set in Ireland, it tells the story of a failed poet and cuckolded husband who discovers a daguerrotype of a bohemian Romantic Irish poet with the same surname–Mangan–and seeks out connections to his literary ancestor.[1]
The New York Review of Books described The Mangan Inheritance as "melodrama at its most inventive and suggestive, an inquiry into the problem of identity and the nature of ancestry that beguiles the reader with dark deeds, wild humor, and weird goings-on, on its way towards a shocking and terrifying—and utterly satisfying—conclusion".[2]
The New York Magazine described it as a "wonderful union of clarity and inventiveness".[1]
Patricia Craig, in her biography of Brian Moore, says that The Mangan Inheritance is "among other things, a satire on the impulse to track down one's ancestors, on romantic Ireland, and on poetic pretensions".[3]
References
- ^ a b Darcy O'Brien (December 31, 1979). "Romantic Ireland? Dead and Gone". New York Magazine. Retrieved April 10, 2013.
- ^ "The Mangan Inheritance". New York Review of Books. 2011. Retrieved November 3, 2011.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Craig, Patricia (2002). Brian Moore: A Biography. London: Bloomsbury. p. 233. ISBN 0 7475 6844 8.
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