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The Gathering by Anne Enright
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The Gathering (Man Booker Prize)

by Anne Enright

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Grove Press, Black Cat (2007), Paperback, 272 pages

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A difficult subject - many brothers and sisters, most ignored and some abused. The American upwardly mobile middle class seems "silly" in light of the this family's pain. ( )
jledoux | Jun 29, 2009 |  
I really did not enjoy this book at all. I found it really slow moving. I read it 2 weeks ago and I can't even really remember what happened in it - that might be my old brain but think it is more likely that it is because it was an unremarkable book. I can't believe it won the man booker prize. ( )
auntycaz | Jun 19, 2009 |  
Fine writing but for me too little narrative. Someon has died, we go back through a family history. Will we ever go forward? I lost the will to find out. (Well actually I skipped to the end but found little to make me regret my haste). Sorry. ( )
debutnovelist | Jun 12, 2009 |  
I never quite got into this book but that could be because I rushed through it in one day. After her brother's death, Veronica needs to sort a few things out to bring him back home. While all the siblings gather together for the funeral, she looks back at their lives (and that of their grandmother) to reach the moment where she thinks her brother's fate was decided. ( )
mari_reads | Jun 11, 2009 |  
We find it intense, lyrical, thoughtful,reflecting experiences of three Irish generations.
mceupc | Jun 1, 2009 |  
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I would like to write down what happened in my grandmother's house the summer I was eight or nine, but I am not sure if it really did happen. I need to bear witness to an uncertain event. I feel it roaring inside me--this thing that may not have taken place. I don't even know what name to put on it. I think you might call it a crime of the flesh, but the flesh is long fallen away and I am not sure what hurt may linger in the bones.
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Amazon.com (ISBN 0802170390, Paperback)

Amazon Significant Seven, November 2007: Pretty early on in The Gathering you realize that in her lingering portrait of the Hegarty clan (and this isn't hyperbole--they are a family of 12), Irish novelist Anne Enright will wrestle with all the giant literary tropes that have come before her. Family, of course, is the big one, but with equal intensity she explores death and dying, the sea and its siren song, sex, shame, secrecy, unreliable memories, madness, "the drink," and--always in the shadows--England. That said, it's not like any other novel about the Irish that I've read. The story of the Hegartys is indeed bleak, and hard, but it surges with tenderness and eloquent thought which, in the end, are the very things that help this family (or at least her narrator Veronica) survive. Through her eyes, and in Enright's skillful imagination, those small turning-point moments of life that we all know in some form or another--a petty fight, a careless word, an event witnessed--come together in an unshakeable vision of how you become the person you are. --Anne Bartholomew

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