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The Gathering

Enright, Anne, 1962- Book - 2007 Adult Book / Fiction / General / Enright, Anne, Fiction 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 3.1 out of 5

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / General / Enright, Anne, Fiction
On Shelf At: Traverwood Branch

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Man, What Was Booker Thinking? submitted by Caser on September 16, 2008, 4:54pm I'm still not sure why I finished this book. It took me over a month to read it because I could only stomach 5-10 pages at time before stopping to wonder if something, anything, interesting was going to happen or be revealed, ever. And even when the big revelation came, it's was no 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' surprise worth re-reading a hundred times to let it crush your soul again. I was never involved with the characters enough to care what happened.

Enright's tedious descriptions of the pedestrian details of daily life, even in her jagged style, come across as flatly uninspired. Sure, the story is successfully depressing; after all, it's about a disbanded family coming together for a son's funeral, but there's little to take away from the experience to render this novel more than a meager two stars.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Black Cat, c2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: 260 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780802170392 (pbk.)
0802170390 (pbk.)

SUBJECTS
Dublin (Ireland) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Ireland -- Fiction.