Anne Enright
Autor(a) de The Gathering
About the Author
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 mostrar mais Literature, the 2001 Encore Award and the 2008 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) mostrar menos
Obras de Anne Enright
Associated Works
Hebbes 1 — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1962-10-11
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Ireland
- Local de nascimento
- Dublin, Ireland
- Locais de residência
- Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland
Dublin, Ireland
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - Educação
- Trinity College, Dublin
University of East Anglia
Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific - Ocupação
- novelist
- Relacionamentos
- Carter, Angela (teacher)
Bradbury, Ray (teacher)
Murphy, Martin (spouse) - Premiações
- Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
- Agente
- Gill Coleridge (Rogers, Coleridge & White)
Membros
Discussions
The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright em Orange January/July (Maio 2012)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 20
- Also by
- 16
- Membros
- 7,637
- Popularidade
- #3,197
- Avaliação
- 3.3
- Resenhas
- 387
- ISBNs
- 255
- Idiomas
- 18
- Favorito
- 11
I loved the different voices in which this story is told. In part one, each chapter could stand as a self-contained novella. And each of the five characters is revealed not in a simple narrative, but through vignettes in which they may not even stand centre stage - the story of Dan is a particular triumph.
I loved the change of pace too. Those 'novellas' were rich explorations of five very different lives . But in the second part, the chapters become briefer, fractured, as the drama of unfolding events gathers pace.
We're left with a portrait of a disfunctional family unwittingly revealed with great clarity by the characters themselves.… (mais)