Anne Enright
Autor/a de The Gathering
Sobre l'autor
Anne Teresa Enright (born 11 October 1962) is an Irish author. She received an English and philosophy degree from Trinity College, Dublin. Enright is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; her novel The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. She has also won the 1991 Rooney Prize for Irish mostra'n més Literature, the 2001 Encore Award and the 2008 Irish Novel of the Year. Enright's writings have appeared in several magazines, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, the London Review of Books, The Dublin Review and the Irish Times. In 2015 she made the New Zealand Best Seller List with her title The Green Road. This title also made the Costa Book Award 2015 shortlist in the UK. It also won the Irish Book Award for Novel of the Year. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Obres de Anne Enright
Obres associades
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Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1962-10-11
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- Ireland
- Lloc de naixement
- Dublin, Ireland
- Llocs de residència
- Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland
Dublin, Ireland
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - Educació
- Trinity College, Dublin
University of East Anglia
Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific - Professions
- novelist
- Relacions
- Carter, Angela (teacher)
Bradbury, Ray (teacher)
Murphy, Martin (spouse) - Premis i honors
- Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
- Agent
- Gill Coleridge (Rogers, Coleridge & White)
Membres
Converses
The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright a Orange January/July (maig 2012)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 20
- També de
- 15
- Membres
- 7,583
- Popularitat
- #3,219
- Valoració
- 3.3
- Ressenyes
- 386
- ISBN
- 255
- Llengües
- 18
- Preferit
- 11
The story is narrated by Nell, a young woman, and her mother, Carmel , and briefly by Phil McDaragh, Carmel's now dead father, who was a somewhat famous poet in Ireland. A quote from Nell regarding her grandfather Phil , p.241 " My grandfather loved my grandmother so much you could not be in the same room with them, as they flamed in the presence of others"... " they both knew it could not last". This quote is taken from a poet named Harvey in a letter of condolence following Phil's death. This is a kind of love I don't understand. A love that flames, yet must die. I guess this explains why Phil was a philanderer and left his wife Terry while she was suffering with breast cancer.
When the novel opens, Nell is in an abusive relationship with a man named Felim. Felim likes to flip through images of porn while he has sex with Nell, and he snaps pictures with his phone of Nell having sex with him , and uploads this to the net. Nell thinks of this relationship, p129, " I was just a throwaway thing, not just for him, but for the people that paid me" etc. She wonders if she had a proper job, a proper place to live , would she have a proper relationship? But I ask myself , why are you in this relationship.
Nell's mother Carmel, wanted a child, but not a husband or any sort of long term relationship as a result of her father leaving her mother. There is some poetry peppered throughout the book, which I was unable to appreciate. I know for many this is a great read, but not for me.
2.5 stars.… (més)