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Katherine O’Dell is an Irish theater legend. Every moment of her life is a performance, with her daughter, Norah, standing in the wings. With age, alcohol, and dimming stardom, however, Katherine’s grip on reality grows fitful. Fueled by a proud and long-simmering rage, she commits a bizarre crime.
As Norah’s role gradually changes to Katherine’s protector, caregiver, and finally legacy-keeper, she revisits her mother’s life of fiercely kept secrets; and Norah confronts in turn the secrets of her own sexual and emotional coming-of-age.
With virtuosic storytelling, Actress weaves together two generations of women with difficult sexual histories, touching a raw and timely nerve. With virtuosic storytelling and in prose at turns lyrical and knife-sharp, Enright takes readers to the heart of the maddening yet tender love that binds a mother and daughter.
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'Written with all the ingenuity and twisty tautness of a thriller' The Times
From the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths.
This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O'Dell, as told by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London's West End. Katherine's life is a grand performance, with young Norah watching from the wings.
But this romance between mother and daughter cannot survive Katherine's past, or the world's damage. As Norah uncovers her mother's secrets, she acquires a few of her own. Then, fame turns to infamy when Katherine decides to commit a bizarre crime.
Actress is about a daughter's search for the truth: the dark secret in the bright star, and what drove Katherine finally mad . . .
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781529112139 |
| Publication date: |
17th June 2021 |
| Author: |
Anne Enright |
| Publisher: |
Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
263 pages |
| Primary Genre |
General Fiction
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Enright's indelible images of the primal love between mother and daughter that ebbs, flows, and ultimately abides will stick with readers. -- Booklist (starred review)
Another triumph for Enright: a confluence of lyrical prose, immediacy, warmth, and emotional insight. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Intoxicating. -- Mary Gordon - New York Times
Captivating. -- Sara Resnick - The New Yorker
There is something that seems effortless about Ms. Enright's writing-an illusion, of course, but one brilliantly sustained. -- Sam Sacks - Wall Street Journal
Gorgeously written fiction...Enright's unflinching portrait...is scrupulously developed and painfully moving. -- Wendy Smith - Boston Globe
Anne Enright writes so well that she just might ruin you for anyone else...Stripped raw of any sentimentality, the result is a critique, a confession, a love letter-and another brilliant novel from Anne Enright. -- Ron Charles - Washington Post
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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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