The Gathering Synopsis
'Witty, original, inventive...utterly compelling' Daily Mail
Winner of the Man Booker Prize
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.
'It is clearly the product of a remarkable intelligence, combined with a gift for observation and deduction' A.L. Kennedy, Guardian
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780099501633 |
| Publication date: |
20th March 2008 |
| Author: |
Anne Enright |
| Publisher: |
Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
260 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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Anne Enright Press Reviews
It is clearly the product of a remarkable intelligence, combined with a gift for observation and deduction - A. L. Kennedy, Guardian
She beautifully describes the way hurt can be inherited… Enright is a daring writer – witty, original and inventive… Utterly compelling - Eithne Farry, Daily Mail
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
A welcome update of the genre - Telegraph
About Anne Enright
Anne Enright was born in Dublin and now lives and works in County Wicklow. She is the author of a collection of stories, The Portable Virgin, which won the Rooney Prize, and three novels, The Wig My Father Wore, What Are You Like? which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award and won the Encore Award, and The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch.
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