The Gathering

Enright, Anne - BOOKER WINNING SIGNED FIRST EDITION

ISBN 10: 0224078739 / ISBN 13: 9780224078733

Published by Jonathan Cape London, 2007

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RARE SIGNED FIRST PRINTING. AS NEW & UNREAD. Signed on the title page, just the name, no dedication. Protected flawless jacket. Stunning collectable, now very rare. The Man Booker prize-winning novelist has been elected to serve as Irelands first Laureate for Fiction. SIGNED AND RARE. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Gathering
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape London
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224078739
• ISBN 13: 9780224078733
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968. His sister, Veronica was there then, as she is now: keeping the dead man company, just for another little while. The "Gathering" is a family epic, condensed and clarified through the remarkable lens of Anne Enright's unblinking eye. It is also a sexual history: tracing the line of hurt and redemption through three generations - starting with the grandmother, Ada Merriman - showing how memories warp and family secrets fester. This is a novel about love and disappointment, about thwarted lust and limitless desire, and how our fate is written in the body, not in the stars. The "Gathering" sends fresh blood through the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new. As in all Anne Enright's work, fiction and non-fiction, this is a book of daring, wit and insight: her distinctive intelligence twisting the world a fraction, and giving it back to us in a new and unforgettable light.

About the Author

Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday's Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and eight novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Other award include the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for The Forgotten Waltz, the Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award and Novel of the Year (which she has won twice), the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature and the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction. Most recently she won the 2024 Writers' Prize for Fiction and the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction.