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Product Description An accumulation of Victorian artifacts, literally dreamed up by young, obscure historian Anthony Maloney has crucial effects on his private and public lives as it draws him nearer and nearer to the border between creative nightmare and deadly wakefulness From the Publisher 'A novel of great exuberance and inventiveness.' -Times Literary Supplement'There can be no novelist writing today who can match him for imaginative scope.' - Anita Brookner Evening Standard 'Brian Moore has mastered the literary magic trick of making the weighty seem effortless and unadorned.' - New York Times About the Author Brian Moore was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1921. He served with the Ministry of War in North Africa, Italy, and France during the Second World War. He emigrated to Canada in 1948 and worked as a newspaper reporter for the MontrealGazette from 1948 until 1952.While living in Canada, Moore wrote his first three novels,The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne,The Feast of Lupercal, andThe Luck of Ginger Coffey, the first two set in Belfast, the third in Montreal. In 1959 he moved to the United States, but Canada continued to play a role in his later novels, includingI Am Mary Dunne,The Great Victorian Collection, andBlack Robe. His many honours included two Governor General’s Awards for Fiction.Brian Moore died in Malibu, California, in 1999.