Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2007
The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house,in the winter of 1968.
The Gathering is a novel about love and disappointment,about thwarted lust and limitless desire,and how our fate is written in the body,not in the stars.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099501633Number of pages: 272Weight: 191 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 17 mm
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'She beautifully describes the way hurt can be inherited... Enright is a daring writer - witty,original and inventive... Utterly compelling.'- Eithne Farry,Daily Mail
'It is clearly the product of a remarkable intelligence,combined with a gift for observation and deduction.'- A. L. Kennedy,The Guardian
'A welcome return,for this writer,to novel form,and as a fresh,sophisticated take on the ever-popular dysfunctional family saga.'- Eve Patten,Irish Times
'Anne Enright has all she needs in terms of imagination and technique and she's a tremendous phrase maker.'- Adam Mars-Jones. Observer
'Enright ambushes as memory does,drawing you into an event and then questioning its reality.'- Sunday Telegraph
Anne Enright
An award-winning novelist,Irish author Anne Enright's books include The Gathering,which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize for Fiction,The Forgotten Waltz and The Green Road. Her latest novel, Actress,is due for publication in February 2020.
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