The Gathering (Enright novel)

The Gathering (Enright novel)

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author = Anne Enright
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country = Ireland
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = Jonathan Cape
release_date = 3 May 2007
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media_type = Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
pages = 272 pp (hardcover)
isbn = ISBN 0-224-07873-9
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"The Gathering" is the fourth novel by Irish author Anne Enright. It won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, eventually chosen unanimously by the jury after having largely been considered an outsider to win the prize. [http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=234661692&p=z3466z398 Enright takes Booker Prize for Fiction] . Ireland On-Line. (2007-10-16). Retrieved on 2007-10-17.] cite web| title = The Gathering wins the Man Booker Prize 2007| publisher = The Man Booker Prize| date = 2007-10-16| url = http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/1004| accessdate = 2007-10-17 ] Although it received mostly favorable reviews on its first publication, sales of the book had been modest before it was named as one of the six books on the Man Booker Prize shortlist in September 2007. After winning the prize, sales more than doubled compared to sales before the announcement.Citation| last = Rickett| first= Joel| title = The bookseller| newspaper = The Guardian| year = 2007| date = 2007-10-20| url = http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2195365,00.html| accessdate = 2007-10-20 ] Citation| last = Lyall| first = Sarah| title = Anne Enright Wins Man Booker Prize| newspaper = New York Times| year = 2007| date = 2007-10-17| url = http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/17/books/17cnd-booker.html| accessdate = 2007-10-17 ] Citation| last = Purcell| first = Bernard| last2 = Battersby| first2 = Eileen| title = Irish novelist beats the odds to win Booker Prize for 'The Gathering'| newspaper = The Irish Times| year = 2007| date = 2007-10-17| url = http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/frontpage/2007/1017/1192565609148.html| accessdate = 2007-10-17 ] Enright described the book as "...the intellectual equivalent of a Hollywood weepie."Citation
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title = Anne Enright Wins Booker Prize
newspaper = Washington Post
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year = 2007
date = 2007-10-16
url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/16/AR2007101600860.html
accessdate = 2007-10-17 ]

The novel traces the narrator's inner journey, setting out to derive meaning from past and present events, and takes place in Ireland and England. Its title refers to the funeral of Liam Hegarty, an alcoholic who committed suicide in the sea at Brighton. His mother and eight of the nine surviving Hegarty children gather in Dublin for his wake. The novel's narrator is 39-year-old Veronica, the sibling who was closest to Liam. She looks through her family's troubled history to try to make sense of his death. 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. She uncovers uncomfortable truths about her family.Citation
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title = Low-profile literary purist gatecrashes Booker party
newspaper = Irish Independent
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year = 2007
date = 2007-10-17
url = http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/lowprofile-literary-purist-gatecrashes-booker-party-1198512.html
accessdate = 2007-10-17 ] Citation
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title = Liam's Wake
newspaper = New York Times
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year = 2007
date = 2007-09-30
url = http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/books/review/Schillinger-t.html?_r=1&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/E/Enright,%20Anne&oref=login
accessdate = 2007-10-17 ]

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/books/chapters/0930-1st-enri.html?ref=review Excerpt of "The Gathering" at the "New York Times"]
* [http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/1004 "The Gathering" wins the Man Booker Prize 2007]
* [http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/the-most-reliable-narrator-of-all-moves-to-light-the-lamps-124483.html "Irish Independent" review of "The Gathering"]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/books/review/Schillinger-t.html?ref=books "New York Times" review of "The Gathering"]
* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2066916,00.html "The Guardian" review of "The Gathering"]
* [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article2677412.ece "Times Literary Supplement" review of "The Gathering"]


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