There are more than shades of Molly Bloom here, as Veronica recounts intimate details of her own and her relatives’ ultimately inconsequential lives. She is obsessed with sex (or, more accurately, with penises) and mumbles to herself about something (maybe death, maybe sex, maybe family -- it's awfully hard to say) for 250 pages. I n Anne Enright… Buy The Gathering by Enright, Anne from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Yes, I understand the woman's "beloved" brother fell When I see that some people have given this book five stars, I start to question my own sanity. What were those Booker judges thinking?An Irish woman's brother dies. This is original writing. In a particularly realistic scene, a journalist, Holly Devane, interviews Norah after her mother’s death. I could at times, recognise similar feelings and thoughts as described so well by the author, about my ownYes. This is the best novel about grief and bereavement that I have read.This is the best novel about grief and bereavement that I have read.I bought this book because I once again fell for Borders' Buy-1-Get-1-50%-Off deal.

This is a novel about how our fate is written in the body, not in the stars.The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. The "Gathering" is a family epic, condensed and clarified through the remarkable lens of Anne Enright's unblinking eye. But I thoroughly enjoyed it. Don't even know how to spell that or if it makes any sense. Now she delivers The Gathering, a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family and a shot of fresh blood into the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new. What were those Booker judges thinking?Another one for the growing life-is-just-too-short pile. Tell a story! And after that is duly apportioned, at least we can just get on with it.This was the only book on the Booker short list that I did not want to read. Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular voices. Consider changing the search query. It’s a family history of the Hegartys, told by Veronica after the death of her brother, Liam. As a sister, I assume she was close to her brother and I'm told that by the author, but I really only have the descriptions of her grief to go by because I didn't get any sense of their close relationship from reading the story. Consider changing the search query. I share same thoughts about this book. Don't give me a magic show. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, and in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature.Winner of Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award 2008 Winner of Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2007 Short-listed for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2009 Short-listed for Irish Book Awards: RTE Radio 1's The Tubridy Show Listeners' Choice Award 2008 Short-listed for Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2008Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use.

Norah has no idea who her father was. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. Anne Enright cares about being right with words. I found it to be a dark but not unforgiving story. Amazing It Could Win Any Award, Let Alone the Man Booker Prize. I understand that the book is about grief, but I never knew where that all-encompassing grief came from because it was never developed in the novel. She lives in Ireland. Yet it was too big to do justice to its centeral theme. )An intelligent, insightful and thought provoking novel about an Irish family experiencing the loss of a brother and son.An intelligent, insightful and thought provoking novel about an Irish family experiencing the loss of a brother and son.I have no idea how to feel about this book, let alone rate it.I have no idea how to feel about this book, let alone rate it.When I see that some people have given this book five stars, I start to question my own sanity. Another one for the growing life-is-just-too-short pile.

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