I Am Mary Dunne
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox book I Am Mary Dunne is a novel, first published in 1968, by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore about one day in the life of a beautiful and well-to-do 31-year-old Canadian woman living in New York City with her third husband, a successful playwright. Triggered by seemingly unimportant occurrences, the protagonist / first person narrator remembers her past in a series of flashbacks, which reveal her insecurities, her bad conscience concerning her first two husbands, and her fear that she is on the brink of insanity.
I Am Mary Dunne has been described as "perhaps [Brian Moore's] best book".<ref name="Head">Template:Cite book</ref> Robert Fulford, writing in Canada's The Globe and Mail, calls it "[a] feminist novel written before the wave of feminist novels began".<ref name="Fulford">Template:Cite news</ref>
In its original draft, I Am Mary Dunne was called A Woman of No Identity.<ref name="Craig">Template:Cite book</ref>
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Further reading
- Brady, Charles A. "I Am Mary Dunne" in Eire-Ireland 3, Winter 1968, pp. 136–40.
- Dorenkamp, J H. "Finishing the day: Nature and Grace in Two Novels by Brian Moore" in Eire-Ireland 13, Spring 1978, pp. 103–112.