Black Robe Paperback by Brian Moore

Product Details

• Publisher: New Canadian Library (2011-09-20)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 240 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780771094262
• Item Weight: 181.44 grams
• Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.0 x 0.6 cm

Black Robe, an account of the seventeenth-century encounter between the Huron and Iroquois that the French called “Les Sauvages” and the French Jesuit missionaries that the native people called “Blackrobes,” is Brian Moore’s most striking book. No other novel has so well captured both the intense—and disastrous—strangeness of each culture to one another, and their equal extraordinariness to our own understanding.

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 Montreal Gazette from 1948 until 1952. While living in Canada, Moore wrote his first three novels, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, The Feast of Lupercal, and The 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, including I Am Mary Dunne, The Great Victorian Collection, and Black Robe. His many honours included two Governor General’s Awards for Fiction. Brian Moore died in Malibu, California, in 1999.