The Temptation of Eileen Hughes
 First US edition | |
| Author | Brian Moore |
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| Genre | novel |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus & Giroux (US) McClelland & Stewart (Canada) Jonathan Cape (UK) |
Publication date | 1981 |
| Pages | 211 |
| Preceded by | The Mangan Inheritance (1979) |
| Followed by | Cold Heaven (1983) |
The Temptation of Eileen Hughes, published in 1981, is a novel by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore. It portrays a quiet young shop assistant from Northern Ireland and her relationship with her rich employers Bernard and Mona McAuley who take her on a trip to London.
Joyce Carol Oates in The New York Times, while appreciating the qualities of Moore's earlier novels, was critical of this one for being "so sketchy, anemic and hurried that one is led to wonder what has gone amiss. For not only is character largely unexplored here – and humor absent – but Mr. Moore tells his story in so perfunctory a manner that it is as if he is merely going through the motions of a narrative this time."[1]
Television adaptation
A TV film based on the novel was made by the BBC and broadcast in the United Kingdom on 3 April 1988. Directed by Tristram Powell, it starred Angharad Rees, Ethna Roddy[2] and Mary Duddy.
External links
- Internet Movie Database entry for The Temptation of Eileen Hughes film
References
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Works by Brian Moore
- Early fiction (1951–57)
- Judith Hearne (1955)
- The Feast of Lupercal (1957)
- The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1960)
- An Answer from Limbo (1962)
- The Emperor of Ice-Cream (1965)
- I Am Mary Dunne (1968)
- Fergus (1970)
- The Revolution Script (1971)
- Catholics (1972)
- The Great Victorian Collection (1975)
- The Doctor's Wife (1976)
- The Mangan Inheritance (1979)
- The Temptation of Eileen Hughes (1981)
- Cold Heaven (1983)
- Black Robe (1985)
- The Colour of Blood (1987)
- Lies of Silence (1990)
- No Other Life (1993)
- The Statement (1995)
- The Magician's Wife (1997)
- The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories (2020)
- The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964)
- Torn Curtain (1966)
- Catholics (TV film, 1973)
- The Blood of Others (1984)
- Control (Il giorno prima) (1987)
- The Temptation of Eileen Hughes (TV film, 1988)
- Black Robe (1991)
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