THE GATHERING [Signed]

Enright, Anne

ISBN 10: 0802118739 / ISBN 13: 9780802118738

Published by Grove Press, New York, New York, 2007

About this Item

Octavo, 260 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition second state dust jacket. Spine is black and yellow with black and tan lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "$24.00" on front flap. Boards have mild shelving wear along spine head, tail, and mild creasing along joints. Signed flat on title page by Anne Enright. Shelved in Room C. 1397502. Special Collections.

Seller Inventory # 1397502

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE GATHERING [Signed]
• Publisher: Grove Press, New York, New York
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802118739
• ISBN 13: 9780802118738
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First U.S. Edition, First Printing.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

A dazzling writer of international stature, Anne Enright is one of Ireland’s most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a return to an intimate canvas and a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family haunted by the past. The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother, Liam, drowned in the sea. His sister, Veronica, collects the body and keeps the dead man company, guarding the secret she shares with him—something that happened in their grandmother’s house in the winter of 1968. As Enright traces the line of betrayal and redemption through three generations, she shows how memories warp and secrets fester. As in all Enright’s work, her distinctive intelligence twists the world a fraction, and gives it back to us in a new and unforgettable light.

Review

Amazon Significant Seven, November 2007: Pretty early on in The Gathering you realize that in her lingering portrait of the Hegarty clan (and this isn't hyperbole--they are a family of 12), Irish novelist Anne Enright will wrestle with all the giant literary tropes that have come before her. Family, of course, is the big one, but with equal intensity she explores death and dying, the sea and its siren song, sex, shame, secrecy, unreliable memories, madness, "the drink," and--always in the shadows--England. That said, it's not like any other novel about the Irish that I've read. The story of the Hegartys is indeed bleak, and hard, but it surges with tenderness and eloquent thought which, in the end, are the very things that help this family (or at least her narrator Veronica) survive. Through her eyes, and in Enright's skillful imagination, those small turning-point moments of life that we all know in some form or another--a petty fight, a careless word, an event witnessed--come together in an unshakeable vision of how you become the person you are. --Anne Bartholomew