The Green Road by Anne Enright
Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize.
"Enright possesses an unusual combination of talentsShe is a rich, lyrical prose writer, who cascades among novelties--again and again, she finds the unexpected adjective, the just noun." -- James Wood - The New Yorker
"With language so vibrant it practically has a pulse, Enright makes an exquisitely drawn case for the possibility of growth, love and transformation at any age." -- People
"Impressive…Enright writes with authority and confidence…Though stories end, The Green Road seems to say, the lives of the people who inhabit them go on." -- David Leavitt - The New York Times Book Review
"Enright…is a master of emotional excavation. …Through her wise and majestic book, [she] shows us the beauty even in life’s harsh terrain." -- Karen E. Bender - O Magazine
"A rich, capacious story, buoyed by tender humor…. The Green Road…offers a survey of Enright’s magnificent dexterity…. There’s nothing she can’t do with perspective, tone and time." -- Ron Charles - Washington Post
"A book of brawny prose sheathed in cool intelligence." -- The Economist
"Enright, newly crowned as the first Irish Fiction Laureate, has her own distinctive voice. She is witty, sharp, profound, perceptive and often very funny as she slyly undercuts her characters’ self-deceptions." -- Sue Gaisford - Financial Times
"This looping story of four siblings coping differently with the smothering embrace of their amusingly melodramatic mother…may be even better than its close cousin, The Gathering, which won the 2007 Booker prize. As locales shift from a stubby Irish village to AIDS-ravaged gay Manhattan and famine-torn Mali, so do the tone and point of view, over which Enright exercises perfect control." -- Boris Kachka - New York Magazine
"Gripping." -- Vanity Fair
"Hugely readable…. The Green Road should confirm Enright’s status as one of our greatest living novelists." -- John Sutherland - The Times (UK)
"With language so vibrant it practically has a pulse, Enright makes an exquisitely drawn case for the possibility of growth, love and transformation at any age." -- People
"Impressive…Enright writes with authority and confidence…Though stories end, The Green Road seems to say, the lives of the people who inhabit them go on." -- David Leavitt - The New York Times Book Review
"Enright…is a master of emotional excavation. …Through her wise and majestic book, [she] shows us the beauty even in life’s harsh terrain." -- Karen E. Bender - O Magazine
"A rich, capacious story, buoyed by tender humor…. The Green Road…offers a survey of Enright’s magnificent dexterity…. There’s nothing she can’t do with perspective, tone and time." -- Ron Charles - Washington Post
"A book of brawny prose sheathed in cool intelligence." -- The Economist
"Enright, newly crowned as the first Irish Fiction Laureate, has her own distinctive voice. She is witty, sharp, profound, perceptive and often very funny as she slyly undercuts her characters’ self-deceptions." -- Sue Gaisford - Financial Times
"This looping story of four siblings coping differently with the smothering embrace of their amusingly melodramatic mother…may be even better than its close cousin, The Gathering, which won the 2007 Booker prize. As locales shift from a stubby Irish village to AIDS-ravaged gay Manhattan and famine-torn Mali, so do the tone and point of view, over which Enright exercises perfect control." -- Boris Kachka - New York Magazine
"Gripping." -- Vanity Fair
"Hugely readable…. The Green Road should confirm Enright’s status as one of our greatest living novelists." -- John Sutherland - The Times (UK)
Anne Enright is the author of eight novels, most recently The Wren, the Wren. She has been awarded the Man Booker Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and was named the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction. In 2022, Enright was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Irish Book Awards. She lives and works in Dublin.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393248210 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393248216 |
| Title | The Green Road |
| Author | Anne Enright |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2015-04-28 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Prizes | Winner of Independent Bookshop Week Book Awards: Adult Book 2016, Winner of Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2016, Winner of Irish Book Awards: Eason Novel of the Year 2015, Short-listed for International Dublin Literary Award 2017, Short-listed for British Book Industry Awards Fiction Book of the Year 2016, Short-listed for Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016, Short-listed for Costa Novel Award 2015 |
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