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The Gathering (Vintage Booker)

The Gathering (Vintage Booker)

by Anne Enright (Author)

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    Paperback 2009

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Synopsis

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
 Pages: 272
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06 Aug 2009
ISBN 10: 0099535076
ISBN 13: 9780099535072
Book Overview: Winner of the 2007 Booker Prize
 Prizes: Shortlisted for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2009.

Media Reviews
Anne Enright's style is as sharp and brilliant as Joan Didion's; the scope of her understanding is a wide as Alice Munro's; her sympathy for her characters is as tender and subtle as Alice McDermott's; her vision of Ireland is as brave and original as Edna O'Brien's. The Gathering is her best book.
Author Bio
Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has published one collection of stories, The Portable Virgin, which won the Rooney Prize, and three novels, The Wig My Father Wore, What Are You Like? - shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award and winner of the Encore Award - and The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch. Her first work of non-fiction, Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood, was published in 2004.