- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd; First Edition edition (Mar 1971)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0224619659
- ISBN-13: 978-0224619653
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,125,959 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Fergus Fadden is another one of Brian Moore's scriveners, a decade older than Brendan Tierney and looking for a different Answer from Limbo (1962) - in other words one of those might-have-been-has-beens on the "westward slope." At the moment, having left his wife and shacked up with a miniskirted twenty-two-year-old, he's in Hollywood doing, and re-doing, a script. He is also assailed by doubts of all kinds as various apparitions - his parents, an aunt, a priest, etc., etc. - materialize and he looks for some easement and assurance of an afterlife they do not give him. For although he has fallen away, he knows that the "grammar of his emotions" has been shaped by his family as well as the faith he can't quite jettison even if he has broken every article thereof. Eventually he is invaded more and more by the past, encircled and accused. Mr. Moore handles these transitions quite remarkably as the unreal becomes real and terrifying. It is not his strongest book but it is furrowed here and there with alt the gentle, sad, comic recognitions which redeem Moore's lapsed lost souls on the outskirts of failure. (Kirkus Reviews)
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Fergus Fadden is trying to build a new life, but first he must escape the guilt-ridden legacy of his Irish past. Then he is plagued by a host of apparitions, who have come to haunt him and question Fergus - about his motives, his beliefs and his current lifestyle.
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Past and present all a-jumble
9 May 2006
Format:Paperback
Fergus Fadden is going through a rough stretch: an Irishman residing in the strange world of Hollywood, he is adapting a novel he wrote for the movies, but is afraid he'll have to change more of it than he wishes. He needs to pay alimony to his ex-wife, however, so can't easily abandon the assignment. Then one day he wakes up and encounters his dead father on his couch wanting to talk. This hallucination, if that's what it is, triggers a number of flashbacks into Fergus's past. He hopes to get from his father an answer to the "meaning of life" question (his father offers him no clue) and, even more, if there's an afterlife. All his father can tell him about that is to have faith and believe. Of course, no one, not even his dead father, can give Fergus any definite answers, for they all reside in Fergus himself.
The least realistic of his novels, the reader sometimes has difficulty understanding what Moore is trying to get at. Some scenes, such as the one involving 20 questions and another involving being chased by a mob, are also confusing. But Moore characterizes Fergus well, especially his struggle to fight his demons brought about by the hallucinations. But I have to admit it's not among my favorite of Moore's novels.
The least realistic of his novels, the reader sometimes has difficulty understanding what Moore is trying to get at. Some scenes, such as the one involving 20 questions and another involving being chased by a mob, are also confusing. But Moore characterizes Fergus well, especially his struggle to fight his demons brought about by the hallucinations. But I have to admit it's not among my favorite of Moore's novels.
moving
6 July 2004
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Fergus is, in my opinion, one of Brian Moore's best novels. Apart from being a really good read, it is also very well written in the literary sense. It is about ghosts, both living and dead. It is also about coming to terms with one's past. A dialogue between past and present. There are resonances of James Joyce in parts of the book. I found it quite a moving book.
Lacks an ending
18 April 2001
Format:Paperback
I had tired of the "hard" reading I've been tied up with of late, so I took a quick novel break, reading this brief work by Brian Moore nearly straight through. In a way, it's a work similar to John Fowles' <cite>Mantissa</cite>, although in many ways it's a more successful book. It does lack an ending, but the process of discovery in the novel is still quite pleasant.
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