“Reckless intelligence, savage humor, slow revelation, no consolation: Anne Enright’s fiction is jet dark-but how it glitters.” - New York Times Book Review The book’s narrative tone echoes Joan Didion’s furious, cool grief, but the richest comparison may be with James Joyce’s Dubliners.” -Peter Behrens, The Washington Post Anger brushes off every page, a species of rage that aches to confront silence and speak truth at last.

“There is something livid and much that is stunning about The Gathering. Enright’s language is percussive one moment, liquid the next, and always in the service of Veronica as we accompany her in her hobbled, painful steps toward self-reinvention.” -Julie Wittes Schlack, The Boston Globe a witty, scatological, and moving splendor of a novel. As in all of Anne Enright’s work, 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 sends fresh blood through the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new. This is a novel about love and disappointment, about how fate is written in the body, not in the stars. The Gathering is a family epic, clarified through Anne Enright’s unblinking eye. As Enright traces the line of betrayal and redemption through three generations, she shows how memories warp and secrets fester. 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. The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother, Liam, drowned in the sea.

Signed by Author(s).From one of Ireland’s most singular voices and winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize, Anne Enright’s The Gathering is a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family haunted by the past. Enright has signed this copy on the title page. She thinks that the reason for his alcoholism lies in something that happened to him in his childhood when he stayed in his grandmother's house, and uncovers uncomfortable truths about her family.

She looks through her family's troubled history to try to make sense of his death. The novel's narrator is 39-year-old Veronica, the sibling who was closest to Liam. His mother and eight of the nine surviving Hegarty children gather in Dublin for his wake. It takes place in Ireland and England and its title refers to the funeral of Liam Hegarty, an alcoholic who took his own life in the sea at Brighton. The fourth novel by the Irish author, which won the Man Booker Prize for 2007. Both the book and the jacket are immaculate. A fine copy in black cloth with bright gilt spine lettering in a fine, pictorial dustwrapper.

The gathering by anne enright