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008			101117s2010 nyu 000 f eng
010			_a2009051331
020			_a9781590173497
050	0	0	_aPR9199.3.M617 _bJ83 2010
082	0	0	_aFIC MOO
100	1		_aMoore, Brian, 1921-1999
240	1	0	_aJudith Hearne
245	1	4	_aThe lonely passion of Judith Hearne _c/ Brian Moore ; afterword by Mary Gordon
260			_aNew York _b: New York Review Books _c, c2010.
300			_a230 p. _c; 21 cm.
490	1		_aNew York Review Books classics
500			_aFirst published in London in 1955 under title: Judith Hearne.
520			_aJudith Hearne-frugal, unmarried, middle-aged-has just made a fresh start: she's moved into a new boarding house in Belfast. Though she quickly finds she doesn't think much of her new housemates, there is one exception: her nosy landlady's brother, a Mr. James Patrick Madden. Mr. Madden has recently returned from America, where he was in the hotel business-a perfectly respectable career, Judith decides-and unlike most of the men who have come into and gone out of her life, he seems to care for her. Judith and Mr. Madden go to Mass together, then to the movies, and even to the Plaza for dinner; and for the first time, Judith allows herself to imagine a different kind of life than the spinsterhood to which she had been resigned. Marrying Mr. Madden could bring the kind of security and happiness Judith has never experienced-she spent her youth nursing a cruel, sick aunt and has barely made ends meet since her aunt died. To be Mrs. Madden would change everything. But Mr. Madden has his own ideas about his relationship with Judith, and they don't match her romantic fantasies. What begins as a simple misunderstanding between two well-intentioned people is soon complicated by the secrets and self-delusions harbored by each. The result is a deeply human portrait of imagination gone awry and life gone astray.
650			_aSingle women _v--Fiction
651			_aBelfast (Northern Ireland) _v--Fiction
655		7	_aPsychological fiction.
942			_cMO
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