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2 reviews
Anne Enright

Grove Press, 2008

just great reading
This book of short stories was good from the first page to the last. I would highly recommend this.

The Portable Virgin

2 reviews
Anne Enright

Vintage, 1992

Every Sentence Crackles
A Dublin bookshop offered this gem up to me when I was visiting Ireland in the early 90's, and probably a year has not gone by since 1991 when I haven't reread The Portable Virgin. It's smart, edgy, and hysterically funny. It's also an entirely original take on what contemporary Irish consciousness is like. Every friend to whom I've lent my dog-eared copy threatens to steal the book from me. ...

Finbars Hotel.

10 reviews
Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, ...

Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt, 2000

Longing for love and lost memories in an old Dublin hotel.
It's not exactly Dublin's first address, the old Finbar's Hotel on Victoria Quay, overlooking the River Liffey and opposite the palazzo structure of Heuston (erstwhile Kingsbridge) Railway Station - but it's a place with both character and history: It has survived a fire, among its guests over the years have been some of society's more colorful personalities, its back rooms used to be infamous ...

Gathering
Anne Enright

BLACK CAT PRESS, 2007

The Gathering

126 reviews

Grove/Atlantic, 2007

Graceful & Imaginative
I'm not surprised that this book won the Booker Prize. Enright has a superior command of the language. She creates fluid yet surprising prose, moving between real and imagined events, past and present with astounding grace and skill. This book is a surreal meditation on family--mother love, sister love, craziness, memory, and in particular the way one generation impacts the next.

What Are You Like?: A Novel

8 reviews
Anne Enright

Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000

rewards
I found this book an intriging mix of confusion and satisfaction. There were long stretches where I was utterly confused about what was going on or why the author was telling me such things interspersed with really beautiful descriptions or some other really satisfying passage that was truly enjoyable. Do I recommend this book? Sure. Just remember that the disjointed feeling is intentional. ...

Making Babies
Anne Enright

VINTAGE (RAND), 2005

The Wig My Father Wore

6 reviews
Anne Enright

Grove Press, 2001

A Strange, But Hilarious Irish Story
I found this book very surreal and often times strange. It starts out with Stephen the angel showing up on Grace's doorstep. At times I'd get lost going back and forth from Grace's home life and her trying to accustom to Stephen's presence. Throwing herself into her job in TV broadcasting at a weekly program called the LoveQuiz. Her father is going senile with Alzheimer's. Looking at Grace, she's ...

THE PLEASURE OF ELIZA LYNCH

4 reviews
ANNE ENRIGHT

JONATHAN CAPE, 2002

Historical fiction in Paraguay
Anne Enright, who won the Booker Prize for The Gathering has fictionalized the life of Eliza Lynch, a nineteenth century Irish woman, who by way of the role of Parisian courtesan, becomes the lover of the emergent political leader of Paraguay. Its chapters are a mix of different narrators, usually Lynch or the medical doctor Stewart, and time is not represented chronologically. Nevertheless ...

Making Babies: Stumbling Into Motherhood
Anne Enright

Jonathan Cape, 2004

Taking Pictures
Anne Enright

Jonathan Cape, 2008

The new book from the winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize

The UEA Creative Writing Anthology
Anne Enright, Giles Foden, ...

Egg Box Publishing, 2008

La Perruque de mon pre
Anne Enright

Jolle Losfeld, 2000

L'air de quoi ?
Anne Enright, Edith Soonckindt

Editions de l'Olivier, 2002

Yesterday's Weather
Anne Enright

McClelland & Stewart, 2008

From the author of the Man Booker Prize? winning literary sensation and long-time Globe and Mail bestseller The Gathering , comes a dazzling, seductive new collection of stories. ?Anne Enright?s style is as sharp and brilliant as Joan Didion?s; the scope of her understanding is as wide as Alice Munro?s; . . . her vision of Ireland is as brave and original as Edna O?Brien?s.? ? Colm Tóibín A rich collection of sharp, vivid stories of loss and ...

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