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The Gathering
Anne Enright
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Description for The Gathering
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194.
'Witty, original, inventive...utterly compelling' Daily Mail
Winner of the Man Booker Prize
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.
'It is clearly the product of a remarkable intelligence, combined with a gift for observation and deduction' A.L. Kennedy, Guardian
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Vintage Books USA
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099501633
SKU
V9780099501633
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-98
About Anne Enright
Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday's Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and seven novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and The Green Road, which was the Bord Gáis Energy Novel of the Year and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, and in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature. She is also the recipient of the 2022 Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2024 Writers' Prize for Fiction, and the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction.
Reviews for The Gathering
She beautifully describes the way hurt can be inherited... Enright is a daring writer - witty, original and inventive... Utterly compelling
Eithne Farry
Daily Mail
It is clearly the product of a remarkable intelligence, combined with a gift for observation and deduction
A. L. Kennedy
Guardian
A welcome return, for this writer, to novel form, and as a fresh, sophisticated take on the ever-popular dysfunctional family saga
Eve Patten
Irish Times
Anne Enright has all she needs in terms of imagination and technique and she's a tremendous phrase maker
Adam Mars-Jones
Observer
Enright ambushes as memory does, drawing you into an event and then questioning its reality
Sunday Telegraph
Eithne Farry
Daily Mail
It is clearly the product of a remarkable intelligence, combined with a gift for observation and deduction
A. L. Kennedy
Guardian
A welcome return, for this writer, to novel form, and as a fresh, sophisticated take on the ever-popular dysfunctional family saga
Eve Patten
Irish Times
Anne Enright has all she needs in terms of imagination and technique and she's a tremendous phrase maker
Adam Mars-Jones
Observer
Enright ambushes as memory does, drawing you into an event and then questioning its reality
Sunday Telegraph