![]() ![]() As in all Anne Enright's work, fiction and non-fiction, this is a book of daring, wit and insight: her distinctive intelligence twisting the world a fraction, and giving it back to us in a new and unforgettable light. 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. The "Gathering" sends fresh blood through the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new. ![]() ![]() Last fall, the novel was awarded Britains highest literary honor, the Man Booker Prize. This 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. Irish author Anne Enright heads for the familiar terrain of the dysfunctional family in The Gathering. It is also a sexual history: tracing the line of hurt and redemption through three generations - starting with the grandmother, Ada Merriman - showing how memories warp and family secrets fester. The "Gathering" is a family epic, condensed and clarified through the remarkable lens of Anne Enright's unblinking eye. Written by Irish author, Anne Enright, The Gathering centres around the nine surviving children of the Hegarty family who come together in Dublin for the. ![]() His sister, Veronica was there then, as she is now: keeping the dead man company, just for another little while. 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 nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. ![]()
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