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Book Title: The Gathering
Author: Anne Enright
Page Count: 261
First Published: 2007
Summary: (from back) [...] The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother, Liam, drowned in the sea. His sister, Veronica, collects the body and keeps the dead man company, guarding the secret she shares with him - something that happened in their grandmother's house in the winter of 1968. As Enright traces the line of betrayal and redemption through three generations, she shows how memories warp and secrets fester. [...]
Rating: superfunk -golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh
This book was so terribly hard to read! The sentences were short, the words simple, and still I felt almost bodily exhausted whenever I read a bit too much. Which I tend to do. And the big secret was so very - predictable. Bad, sure, horrible, awful, but also so - I'm lacking another word - mainstream. Maybe I just expected too much because she won the Booker Prize, but I was a bit disappointed in the lack of substance of this book.
Author: Anne Enright
Page Count: 261
First Published: 2007
Summary: (from back) [...] The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother, Liam, drowned in the sea. His sister, Veronica, collects the body and keeps the dead man company, guarding the secret she shares with him - something that happened in their grandmother's house in the winter of 1968. As Enright traces the line of betrayal and redemption through three generations, she shows how memories warp and secrets fester. [...]
Rating: superfunk -golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh
This book was so terribly hard to read! The sentences were short, the words simple, and still I felt almost bodily exhausted whenever I read a bit too much. Which I tend to do. And the big secret was so very - predictable. Bad, sure, horrible, awful, but also so - I'm lacking another word - mainstream. Maybe I just expected too much because she won the Booker Prize, but I was a bit disappointed in the lack of substance of this book.