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, ...
Man Booker winner Anne Enright's story collection "Yesterday's Weather" is a series of moving glimpses into the lives of ordinary men and women struggling with the bonds of love, family, and community in an increasingly disconnected world. It exhibits the arresting images and subversive wit that mark Enright as one of the most thrillingly gifted ...
Seven well-known Irish writers converge at Finbar's Hotel, a rundown establishment in Dublin, and set seven stories there, each about a different character. Contributors include Roddy Doyle, Colm Toibin, Jennifer Johnson, Hugo Hamilton, Joseph O'Connor, Anne Enright, and Dermot Bolger.
A collection of stories whose characters interpret their lives through different unusual languages - visual, numerical, linguistic, sexual - and through honesty, humour and polemical imagination. The author was awarded the best first in English at Trinity College, Dublin, since Oscar Wilde.
Anne Enright, one of Ireland's most remarkable writers, has just had two babies: a girl and a boy. Her new book, "Making Babies", is the intimate, engaging, and very funny record of the journey from early pregnancy to age two. Written in dispatches, typed with a sleeping baby in the room, it has the rush of good news - full of the mess, the glory, ...
The stories in "Taking Pictures" are snapshots of the body in trouble: in denial, in extremis, in love. Mapping the messy connections between people - and their failures to connect - the characters are captured in the grainy texture of real life: freshly palpable, sensuous and deeply flawed. From Dublin to Venice, from an American college dorm to ...
Raised by her father after her mother died in childbirth, Maria grows up, moves to New York, and accidentally comes across a piece of her past--or so she thinks--in a photograph of herself as a child in a place she doesn't recognize. She sets off on a quest for explanation that takes her to Ireland and London, and to strange facts about her father ...
An Irish girl from Dublin becomes the mistress of Francisco Solano Lopez, the Paraguayan dictator, in Anne Enright's novel, which is based on a true tale. The novel tackles the question of whether Lopez was a hero or a disaster, but its main emphasis is on recreating the times in which it is set--the second half of the 19th century.
The life of Grace, a TV producer, is transformed when she answers the door to a fully-fledged angel. She promptly falls in love, moving from the spiritual to the anatomical. Meanwhile her TV job spirals out of control, and her bewigged, stroke-stricken father becomes the sanest person she knows.
One day on Brighton beach, wayward but vulnerable Liam Hegarty drowns himself. His sister Veronica, trying to come to terms with the suicide of her beloved brother, begins to take a closer look at her dysfunctional family's history in an attempt to pinpoint the moment at which their lives began to unravel. In a powerful reading, Fiona Shaw brings ...
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