The Green Road

Anne Enright

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English

Vintage
01 February 2016

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

A darkly glinting novel set on Ireland's Atlantic coast, The Green Road is a story of fracture and family, selfishness and compassion - a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we learn to fill them. The children of Rosaleen Madigan leave the west of Ireland for lives they never could have imagined in Dublin, New York and various third-world towns. 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. Anne Enright is addicted to the truth of things. Sentence by sentence, there are few writers alive who can invest the language with such torque and gleam, such wit and longing - who can write dialogue that speaks itself aloud, who can show us the million splinters of her characters' lives then pull them back up together again, into a perfect glass.

By: Anne Enright
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 229g
ISBN: 9780099539797
ISBN 10: 0099539799
Publication Date: 01 February 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Green Road

Confirms her as one of the most significant writers of her generation... A master. She has certainly produced a masterly work. Sunday Times The Green Road is true and rueful, as terribly adult in its clarity as its battered Madigans. -- James Wood New Yorker Enright is a shape-shifter who gets into the nerve centres of her creations; the power of her prose lies in its absence of ego. The Green Road is a devastating novel about home and how savage a place it can be. -- Frances Wilson New Statesman This novel should confirm Enright's status as one of our (their?) greatest living novelists. I hope she can be persuaded to do a sequel. -- John Sutherland The Times [A] brilliant, devastating, radical novel. -- Kate Clanchy Guardian