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The Gathering: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2007

The Gathering: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2007

by Anne Enright (Author), Anne Enright (Author)

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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.

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Format: paperback
 Publisher: Vintage
Published:
ISBN 10: 0099501635
ISBN 13: 9780099501633
Book Overview: Winner of the Man Booker Prize
 Prizes: Winner of Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award 2008 and Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2007. Shortlisted for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2009 and Irish Book Awards: RTE Radio 1's The Tubridy Show Listeners' Choice Award 2008 and Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2008.

Media Reviews
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 * 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 *
Author Bio
Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has published two collection of stories, collected as Yesterday's Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and five novels, including The Gathering, which was the Irish Novel of the Year, and won the Irish Fiction Award and the 2007 Man Booker Prize, and The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. She is the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction.