There was still time: for her ugliness was destined to bloom late, hidden first by the unformed gawkiness of youth, budding to plainness in young womanhood and now flowering to slow maturity in her early forties, it still awaited the subtle garishness which only decay could bring to fruition: a garishness which, when arrived at, would preclude all efforts at the mirror game.”“For it was important to have things to tell which interested your friends. Brian Moore’s The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, recently reissued by the New York Times Review of Books, was first published in 1955. If you need moral uplift you need to stay away from adult literary fiction like this,because its mostly based on real life which is messy and not for people who need a neat clean wrapped up endings,and some swear words,and racist and sexist content.Oh sweet lord if there is a more excruciatingly, exquisitely, exactingly, deliriously wretched little book out there, I don't think I could even handle it.I tried to think of a more depressing novel than Brian Moore's I tried to think of a more depressing novel than Brian Moore's This bleak, raw powerful story of the mental disintegration of a lonely Belfast spinster was a very accomplished debut novel that must have seemed quite modern in 1955. "Her painful awareness that others are entirely uninterested in her is heartbreaking, but it is impossible not to love Miss Hearne for her quiet determination to press on, her meek refusal to abandon her dream that despite her advancing age and plain looks, an opportunity for love might still come her way.After a brief breakfast conversation with a fellow lodger, Mr. Madden, just back from America, Miss Hearne is launched into this reverie about his returning home to her, to their home — sometime in the future, when she would be his wife: "He put his dressing-gown on and sat down in his armchair and she went to him prettily, sat on his knee while he told her how things had gone that day. Judith’s clinginess and desperation is awkward to read about if you know someone like that. Judy, a spinster, who is devoutly religious, a tad martyrish, and woefully unaware of her own reality, takes up residence at yet a new boarding house (this whole concept of shared living that seemed to be so common Back Then but now seemingly obsolete really fascinates me) where she meets a single man. She had to find other subjects and other subjects were mostly other people. In Judy's classic way she immediately assumes more to the connection than there is, and the story quickly details the devastation of Judy, who is also mishandling her alcohol problem.If we don't have our delusions how can we live? "The photograph eyes were stern and questioning, sharing Miss Hearne's own misgivings about the condition of the bedsprings, the shabbiness of the furniture and the rundown part of Belfast in which the room is situated." Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Some parts are from different povs which gets you through the plot in an efficient way, and gives sidelights and other views on the protagonist. And therein lies the passion of “The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne.” For Miss Hearne has a passionate nature, deep within her. So people she knew, people she had heard of, people she saw in the street, people she had read about, they all had to be collected and gone through like a basket of sewing so that the most interesting bits about them could be picked out and fitted together to make conversation.” This is the story from the other side, a life crushed into conformity. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Slightly reminiscent of Jean Rhys, except even more hopeless and drab -- Moore's prose style is good, but not as diamond-hard and faceted as hers, and the Rhys women at least get to rebel. This book was published in 1955. Women were at risk of becoming lonely, reclusive, impoverished; unfulfilled spinsters and childless aunts.... unless they could pursuade a man, preferable My initial reaction to The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne was to be thankful that the attitudes prevalent in the 1950’s, and particularly the objectification of women, seem so anachronistic in 2018. Happy St. Patrick's Day. She retreats to her lonely room in a sad Dublin boarding house, locks the door and runs to her closet and finds the bottle where it has been hidden away during all the recent days of happiness, waiting quietly until she would need it again. His works that are based upon the land of his birth are poignant and evocative of the lives of common Irish people, and he is especially skillful at understanding the lives of marginalized women.Brian Moore, a Northern Irish and Canadian author, died in 1999.
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