Anne Enright
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Actress
- By: Anne Enright
- Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 03, 2020
- Language: English
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3.44(3800 ratings)
A brilliant and moving novel about celebrity, sexual power, and a daughter’s search to understand her
mother’s hidden truths.
Katherine O’Dell is an Irish theater legend. As her daughter, Norah, retraces her mother’s celebrated career and
bohemian life, she delves into long-kept secrets, both her mother’s and her own. Katherine began her career on
Ireland’s bus-and-truck circuit before making it to London’s West End, Broadway, and finally Hollywood. Every
moment of her life is a performance, with young Norah standing in the wings. But the mother-daughter romance
cannot survive Katherine’s past or the world’s damage. With age, alcohol, and dimming stardom, Katherine’s grip on
reality grows fitful. Fueled by a proud and long-simmering rage, she commits a bizarre crime.
As Norah’s role gradually changes to Katherine’s protector, caregiver, and finally legacy-keeper, she revisits her
mother’s life of fiercely kept secrets; and Norah reveals in turn the secrets of her own sexual and emotional comingof-age story. Her narrative is shaped by three braided searches–for her father’s identity; for her mother’s motive in
donning a Chanel suit one morning and shooting a TV producer in the foot; and her own search for a husband, family,
and work she loves.
Bringing to life two generations of women with difficult sexual histories, both assaulted and silenced, both finding–
or failing to find–their powers of recovery, Actress touches a raw and timely nerve. With virtuosic storytelling and in
prose at turns lyrical and knife-sharp, Anne Enright takes readers to the heart of the maddening yet tender love that
binds a mother and daughter.
The Forgotten Waltz
- By: Anne Enright
- Narrator: Anne Enright
- Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 03, 2011
- Language: English
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3.18(1721 ratings)
Irish novelist Anne Enright won the coveted Man Booker Prize for her eloquent novel The Gathering. In The Forgotten Waltz, Enright crafts a stunning tale about a Dublin woman’s affair and its heartrending consequences. Gina Moynihan is already married when she meets SeAn Vallely. But longing and desire soon overtake them-and their lives begin to crumble shortly after. “A breathtaking work that will surprise you; highly recommended.”-Library Journal
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- By: Anne Enright
- Narrator: Anne Enright
- Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 03, 2008
- Language: English
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3.11(19002 ratings)
Regarded as one of her country’s foremost voices, Irish author Anne Enright makes a fresh mark on a rich literary tradition. “The Gathering” is a deeply insightful family saga, steeped in secrets and intrigue, unfolding over three generations. “Enright’s hypnotic prose turns . desperation into something fierce and beautiful.”-Booklist, starred review
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- By: Anne Enright
- Narrator: Alana Kerr Collins
- Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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3.5(6147 ratings)
From internationally acclaimed, Man Booker Prize-winning author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland’s Atlantic coast. The Green Road is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and selfishness–a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we strive to fill them.
Spanning thirty years, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart. As they grow up, Rosaleen’s four children leave the west of Ireland for lives they could have never imagined in Dublin, New York, and Mali, West Africa. In her early old age their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she’s decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought and sold.
A profoundly moving work about a family’s desperate attempt to recover the relationships they’ve lost and forge the ones they never had, The Green Road is Enright’s most mature, accomplished, and unforgettable novel to date.
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