Attention: Writing on Life, Art, and the World

by Anne Enright

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From one of our most distinguished literary voices, a defining essay collection blending personal reflection with urgent political writing and wide-ranging cultural criticism.

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Anne Teresa Enright (born 11 October 1962) is an Irish author. She received an English and philosophy degree from Trinity College, Dublin. Enright is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; her novel The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. She has also won the 1991 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the 2001 Encore Award and the 2008 show more Irish Novel of the Year. Enright's writings have appeared in several magazines, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, the London Review of Books, The Dublin Review and the Irish Times. In 2015 she made the New Zealand Best Seller List with her title The Green Road. This title also made the Costa Book Award 2015 shortlist in the UK. It also won the Irish Book Award for Novel of the Year. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Attention: Writing on Life, Art, and the World

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Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
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824.92Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish essaysModern Period21st century
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PR6055 .N73 .A88Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1961-2000
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