Always at the centre of any artistic and cultural excitement, the
Irish writer George Moore enjoyed a sixty-year literary career of
prolific writing, challenging friendships in Paris, London and
Dublin, and relationships - though not marriage - with some of the
most interesting women of his time. This book - the first full
documentary biography of Moore since 1936 - tells the remarkable
story of a high-spirited man and his pathbreaking innovations as a
writer. Adrian Frazier has mined letters, memoirs, society journals
and other archives to reveal new information about Moore's early
life, his ostensibly promiscuous bachelor days, and his complex
career as an author. The book provides an engaging account of
Moore's pursuit of his passions, from his early, failed attempt to
become an artist in Paris in the 1870s through his long career as
an author. Moore wrote plays, poetry, criticism, short stories and
sixteen novels, 'Esther Waters' being the best-known.His
experiments in style ranged from the naturalistic 'A Mummer's Wife'
to the stream of consciousness prose of 'The Lake' and the
seamless, fluent narratives of his late manner - the comic 'Hail
and Farewell', and the epic 'The Book Kerith'. Frazier records the
relationships between Moore and his well-known friends - Yeats,
Joyce, Archer, Shaw, Frank Harris, Sickert, Whistler and others -
and with the many women in his life, including his greatest love,
Lady Cunard. At the end of his life, Moore sought, without success,
a biographer who would candidly tell the story of his life, loves
and art. Adrian Frazier has now written that story. Adrian Frazier
is professor of English at Union College, Schenectady, New York.
Among his publications are 'Behind the Scenes: Yeats, Horniman and
the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre' (1990).
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