"From Booker-prize winning author Anne Enright, an astonishing novel about the love between mother and daughter--sometimes fierce, often painful, but always transcendent. "Carmel had been alone all her life. She had been alone since she was twelve years old. The baby knew all thi...
Search Results
32 Results
Literary Form
32 Results
Did you mean?
Inert Anne
"From the Man Booker Prize-winner, 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...
From one of our most distinguished literary voices, a defining essay collection blending personal reflection with urgent political writing and wideranging cultural criticism.For thirty years Anne Enrightone of our greatest living novelists (Times)has been paying attention: castin...
Inspired by the life of Eliza Lynch, the nineteenth-century Irishwoman who became Paraguay's Eva Peron.
The sum of these stories is a rich tapestry of people struggling to find contentment with one another--and with themselves--in a rapidly changing Ireland.
This is the story of Irish theatre legend, Katherine O'Dell, as written by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London's West End. Katherine's life is a grand performance, with young Norah watching from the wing...
The sum of these stories is a rich tapestry of people struggling to find contentment with one another--and with themselves--in a rapidly changing Ireland.
The children of Rosaleen Madigan grow up in the West of Ireland, in a world that is about to change. When her oldest brother, Dan, announces he will enter the priesthood, young Hanna watches her mother retreat in sorrow to her bed. In the years that follow, three of the children ...
"Veronica--once an attention-deprived middle child among 12 siblings, and now an unfulfilled wife and mother--has come to London to claim the body of her beloved yet estranged brother Liam who drowned himself at sea. As the nine surviving members of the Hegarty clan converge in D...
From Booker Award-winning bestselling author of "The Gathering" comes a darkly glinting novel set mainly in a small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast. The children of Rosaleen Madigan grow up in the West of Ireland, in a world that is about to change. In the years that follow, thr...
In a suburb of Dublin, in the winter of 2009, it has snowed. A woman recalls the trail of lust and happenstance that brought her to fall for "the love of her life." As the city outside comes to a halt, she remembers the days of their affair in one hotel room or another: long afte...
In Terenure, a pleasant suburb of Dublin, it's snowing. Gina Moynihan, girl about town, recalls the trail of lust and happenstance that brought her to fall for "the love of her life," Séan Vallely. Gina remembers their affair: long afternoons made blank by bliss and denial. Now,...
Man Booker Prize-winner and bestselling author Anne Enright's latest--a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths. This is the story of Irish theatre legend, Katherine O'Dell, as written by her daughter N...