I Am Mary Dunne

I Am Mary Dunne (1968) is a novel by 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.

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1968 - Brian Moore - Canadian - New York City - Protagonist - Narrator - Flashback - Conscience - Insanity

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Of all of Moore's books, I Am Mary Dunne has been described as "perhaps his best novel" in The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (ed. Ian Ousby, 1988).

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Ian Ousby - 1988

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