It is about dying and grief-grief in the myriad ways that the deaths of those we love bruise the human psyche. It is a novel about love and disappointment, about how memories warp and secrets fester, and how fate is written in the body, not in the stars.Įxtraordinary, Lyrical Writing, but a Dark and Desolate Story That Is Just So Very Sad
The Gathering is a daring, witty, and insightful family epic, clarified through Anne Enrights unblinking eye. His sister, Veronica, collects the body and keeps the dead man company, guarding the secret she shares with himsomething that happened in their grandmothers house in the winter of 1968.Īs Enright traces the line of betrayal and redemption through three generations her distinctive intelligence twists the world a fraction and gives it back to us in a new and unforgettable light. The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother, Liam, drowned in the sea. 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. Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Irelands most singular voices.
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