Review:
Masterful and deeply satisfying novel.--Starred Review
Anne Enright 's exhilarating novel The Forgotten Waltz explores a life-altering affair between two seemingly unremarkable Irish professionals with such exquisite attention, honesty, and wit as to make every sentence throb with life. Don t start this book if you have anything else to do for the rest of the day because it will not get done. [Our narrator, ] Gina is not interested in what she 's supposed to feel but in what she does feel an ever-shifting, primal range of emotions that readers will recognize with delight. It 's that wonderful feeling that you get from the best fiction: Ah, at last somebody said it. --Kimberly Cutter
It 's relatively rare for a sophisticated, thought-provoking novel to titillate, but Anne Enright 's new book The Forgotten Waltz is a scintillating exception to the rule .You know those books that unfold and surround you? This is one of those . Enright mesmerizes with her insights into the convoluted paths human thoughts and desires take . But besides its fierce intelligence, this book is just plain sexy.
Enright 's shimmering prose captures the nuances of light and dark in nature and in society, and she deftly creates memorable characters living in the many and busy little nothings that form the drama of everyday life.
Enright--wistful, equivocal, angry--gives voice to her characters with remarkable sympathy and precision, and she is never heavy-handed in tracing the connections between the private and public lives of capital.
Anne Enright's exhilarating novel The Forgotten Waltz ... explores a life-altering affair between two seemingly unremarkable Irish professionals with such exquisite attention, honesty, and wit as to make every sentence throb with life. Don't start this book if you have anything else to do for the rest of the day because it will not get done. ... [Our narrator, ] Gina is not interested in what she's supposed to feel but in what she does feel--an ever-shifting, primal range of emotions that readers will recognize with delight. It's that wonderful feeling that you get from the best fiction: Ah, at last somebody said it. --Kimberly Cutter
It's relatively rare for a sophisticated, thought-provoking novel to titillate, but Anne Enright's new book The Forgotten Waltz is a scintillating exception to the rule....You know those books that unfold and surround you? This is one of those.... Enright mesmerizes with her insights into the convoluted paths human thoughts and desires take.... But besides its fierce intelligence, this book is just plain sexy.
Enright's shimmering prose captures the nuances of light and dark in nature and in society, and she deftly creates memorable characters living in the many and busy little nothings that form the drama of everyday life.
Masterful and deeply satisfying novel. --Starred Review"
The Forgotten Waltz is a nervy enterprise, an audacious bait-and-switch. Cloaked in a novel about a love affair is a ferocious indictment of the self-loved material girls our era has produced. Enright s channeling of Gina s interior monologue is so accurate and unsparing that reading the book is like eavesdropping on a very long, crazily intimate cellphone conversation. It s a testament to the unwavering fierceness of Enright s project that I mean this as high praise. We ve all met people like the characters in her book. Neither evil nor good, they re merely awful in entirely ordinary ways. And it s impressive, how skillfully Anne Enright has gotten them on the page. --Francine Prose"
Book Description:
A powerful, moving book of secrets, longing and loss, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering.
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