{"product_id":"9781590173497","title":"The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne","description":"By: Brian Moore     \u003chr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e’s \u003cb\u003e“1,000 Books to Read Before You Die\u003cb\u003e”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis underrated classic of contemporary Irish literature tells the “utterly transfixing” story of a lonely, poverty-stricken spinster in 1950s Belfast (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJudith Hearne is an unmarried woman of a certain age who has come down in society. She has few skills and is full of the prejudices and pieties of her genteel Belfast upbringing. But Judith has a secret life. And she is just one heartbreak away from revealing it to the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHailed by Graham Greene, Thomas Flanagan, and Harper Lee alike, \u003ci\u003eThe Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne\u003c\/i\u003e is an unflinching and deeply sympathetic portrait of a woman destroyed by self and circumstance. First published in 1955, it marked Brian Moore as a major figure in English literature (he would go on to be short-listed three times for the Booker Prize) and established him as an astute chronicler of the human soul.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Seldom in modern fiction has any character been revealed so completely or been made to seem so poignantly real.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46556781445347,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9781590173497","price":122.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9781590173497.jpg?v=1749912753","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh\/products\/9781590173497","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}