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Anne Enright

Autor/a de The Gathering

20+ obres 7,583 Membres 386 Ressenyes 11 preferits

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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

The Gathering (2007) 4,043 exemplars
The Green Road (2015) 973 exemplars
The Forgotten Waltz (2011) 823 exemplars
Actress (2020) 406 exemplars
Yesterday's Weather: Stories (2008) 230 exemplars
The Wren, The Wren (2023) 228 exemplars
What Are You Like? (2000) 185 exemplars
The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (2002) 149 exemplars
The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story (2010) — Editor — 112 exemplars
Taking Pictures: Stories (2008) 105 exemplars
The Wig My Father Wore (1995) 98 exemplars
The Portable Virgin (1991) 64 exemplars
Babies (2017) 11 exemplars
Becoming Alice Maher (2012) 2 exemplars
Solstice 2 exemplars
Mortification 1 exemplars

Obres associades

Finbar's Hotel (1997) — Col·laborador — 319 exemplars
Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame (2003) — Col·laborador — 280 exemplars
Granta 85: Hidden Histories (2004) — Col·laborador — 170 exemplars
The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999) — Col·laborador — 151 exemplars
Granta 75: Brief Encounters (2001) — Col·laborador — 124 exemplars
Midsummer Nights (1702) — Col·laborador — 73 exemplars
The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers (2015) — Col·laborador — 57 exemplars
Revenge: Short Stories by Women Writers (1986) — Col·laborador — 49 exemplars
As Music and Splendour (1958) — Introducció, algunes edicions49 exemplars
The Anchor Book of New Irish Writing (2000) — Col·laborador — 39 exemplars
The Penguin Book of Irish Comic Writing (1996) — Autor, algunes edicions25 exemplars
A Vintage Christmas (Vintage Minis) (2018) — Col·laborador — 9 exemplars
Trinity Tales: Trinity College Dublin in the Eighties (2013) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
Hebbes 1 — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Beyond the Centre: Writers in Their Own Words (2016) — Autor — 2 exemplars

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The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright a Orange January/July (maig 2012)

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A thinly plotted , non-linear story. I do enjoy character driven novels, but these characters were not well realized, nor interesting, nor sympathetic. I did not find much to like about this book, and I was glad to finish the last page.

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.
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vancouverdeb | Hi ha 10 ressenyes més | Mar 20, 2024 |
I started reading this book five years ago and must have put it down about 1/4 of the way in and forgotten about it. Accordingly, coming upon it again was an unexpected happenstance. Ms. Enright writes beautifully, with traditional Irish lyricism, in a way that out-Joyce’s James Joyce because of its more modern accessibility.

The gathering that gives this novel its title is the funeral of Liam Hegarty, a troubled 30-something man who walked into the ocean with a pocket full of rocks, and the story's central focus is the nine surviving Hegarty adult children as they come together for their brother. The narrator, Liam’s Irish twin, Veronica, is tasked with collecting Liam’s body from England and returning it to Ireland, a time during which she reflects on where his life might have gone wrong, which evokes a memory of a terrible secret, something that happened when they were children and were farmed out, along with their sister Kitty to their grandmother, Ada, for a year. But in this unraveling mystery of past causes, the power of Ms. Enright's gorgeous prose saves the story's dark weight from burdening the reader. The Gathering’s detours from reality are disconcerting, making the narrator less than trustworthy, but nothing happens that could not happen, that has not happened, to somebody. Not an easy, feel-good story, but a beautifully told one in its desperate darkness.

My favorite insight in this story: “[H]e was unkind to every single person who tried to love him; mostly, and especially, to every woman he ever slept with, and still, after a lifetime of spreading the hurt around, he managed to blame me. And I managed to feel guilty. Now why is that? This is what shame does. This is the anatomy and mechanism of a family – a whole fucking country – drowning in shame.”
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bschweiger | Hi ha 204 ressenyes més | Feb 4, 2024 |
Reason read: shared read, TIOLI, best of 2023. This was a book that received some attention in 2023. I've read 2 previous books by Enright. This is my least favorite. It is about family and about trauma and I know that trauma is a difficult thing but this was just plain not my thing; it is too much about sex, too much about menstruation, too swearing and just not enough story. I did appreciate this line; "love is a higher function, sex is a beast". This is very true and probably the heart of the subject of this book.… (més)
 
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Kristelh | Hi ha 10 ressenyes més | Jan 11, 2024 |

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