Gaelic Gloom
Colm Tóibín: Brian Moore, 10 August 2000
Brian Moore: The Chameleon Novelist
by Denis Sampson.
Marino, 344 pp., IR£20, October 1998,1 86023 078 4 Show More
by Denis Sampson.
Marino, 344 pp., IR£20, October 1998,
“... Ice-Cream, which he described as his most autobiographical novel, Moore dramatised the gap between Gavin’s idealism (and failure to study for exams) in the early years of the war and his family’s conservatism. Gavin’s mother thinks that General Franco is a saint and Gavin’s father ... ”