- Family secrets, Fiction, Large type books, Man Booker Prize Winner
Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family and a shot of fresh blood into the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new.
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Prestige, contemplative, meticulous and character-led.
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- contemplativerelentless
- rawmeticulous
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Anne Enright
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 260
- Publisher
- Actes Sud, Penguin Random House, Chatto Bodley Head & Cape
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- English, Polish, cat, French
- ISBN
- 9788308042830
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