I Am Mary Dunne

I Am Mary Dunne (1968) is a novel 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.

Of all of Moore's books, I Am Mary Dunne has been described as "perhaps his best novel" in The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (ed. Ian Ousby, 1988).

Works by Brian Moore
Non-fiction
  • Canada (1963)
Screenplays
  • The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964)
  • Torn Curtain (1966)
  • Catholics (1973)
  • The Blood of Others (1984)
  • The Sight (1985)
  • Il Giorno prima (Control) (1987)
  • Black Robe (1991)
Novels
  • Judith Hearne (1955)
  • The Feast of Lupercal (1957)
  • The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1960)
  • An Answer from Limbo (1962)
  • The Emperor of Ice-Cream (1965)
  • I Am Mary Dunne (1968)
  • Fergus (1970)
  • The Revolution Script (1971)
  • Catholics (1972)
  • The Great Victorian Collection (1975)
  • The Doctor's Wife (1976)
  • The Mangan Inheritance (1979)
  • The Temptation of Eileen Hughes (1981)
  • Cold Heaven (1983)
  • Black Robe (1985)
  • The Colour of Blood (1987)
  • Lies of Silence (1990)
  • No Other Life (1993)
  • The Statement (1995)
  • The Magician's Wife (1997)

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