![]() ![]() ![]() Yet I have to confess that this novel left me quite pickled.Įnright’s last novel, The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch, sent us milling into the nether regions of Eliza Lynch and 19th century Paraguay this time, Veronica Hegarty, the narrator of The Gathering, wants to tell us what happened to her brother Liam the summer he was 8 or 9, but she’s not sure if it really did happen. This book is more of a perturbing gulp than a difficult read, with writing that hoofs you in the gut no matter how much you may wish to rail against it. ![]() A third salivating group (likely young writers) will declare a willingness to clamber over moving rocks, minus essential organs, for a similar ability to write such incredible sentences. One side will hold its gaze and sit mucho satisfied at the table, another group with less robust constitutions may be unable to confront what it offers and shiver away from it. Anne Enright’s Man Booker short-listed novel The Gathering may well polarize readers in the same way childhood experiences divide families into distinct camps. ![]()
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