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I Am Mary Dunne

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Publication date
  
1968

Author
  
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3.7/5
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Originally published
  
1968

Genre
  
Fiction

Followed by
  
Fergus (1970)

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Preceded by
  
Brian Moore books
  
An Answer from Limbo, The Doctor's Wife, The Emperor of Ice‑Cream, Fergus, The Great Victorian Collection

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.

I Am Mary Dunne has been described as "perhaps [Brian Moore's] best book". Robert Fulford, writing in Canada's The Globe and Mail, calls it "[a] feminist novel written before the wave of feminist novels began".

In its original draft, I Am Mary Dunne was called A Woman of No Identity.

References

I Am Mary Dunne Wikipedia


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