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I liked this book, but not nearly as much as I loved The Forgotten Waltz. That book I loved because of the relationship making up the core of the story. In The Green Road, the relationships between family members are my least favorite parts, but they make up the majority of the novel.
A woman in Ireland has four children. The first part tells some of their stories as children and young adults, and the ...more
I liked this book, but not nearly as much as I loved The Forgotten Waltz. That book I loved because of the relationship making up the core of the story. In The Green Road, the relationships between family members are my least favorite parts, but they make up the majority of the novel.
A woman in Ireland has four children. The first part tells some of their stories as children and young adults, and the ...more
From BBc Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime:
A story of family, selfishness and compassion on Ireland's Atlantic coast, from the Man Booker Prize-winner, Anne Enright.
The children of Rosaleen Madigan leave the west of Ireland for lives they never could have imagined, in Dublin, New York and various third-world towns. In her early old age, their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she has decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for one final Christmas together ...more
A story of family, selfishness and compassion on Ireland's Atlantic coast, from the Man Booker Prize-winner, Anne Enright.
The children of Rosaleen Madigan leave the west of Ireland for lives they never could have imagined, in Dublin, New York and various third-world towns. In her early old age, their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she has decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for one final Christmas together ...more
A study of the dysfunctional Madigan family: four siblings forever wounded by their narcissistic, remote mother. I found the novel's structure (individual chapters from the point of view of each sibling and Mommie Not-So-Dearest, spread over 20 years, followed by a more conventional telling of a fraught Christmas reunion in their small Irish town) workable, though some might find that it distances them from the characters (the way they are distanced from each other!).
This could have been a slog ...more
This could have been a slog ...more
Anne Enright has such an ear for the Irish speech, tone and life. I loved this book although it grew on me slowly. An unusual, and beautiful structure...includes four siblings, their mother, their home on the west coast of Ireland, their travels across the world. The structure is unusual...five different characters and five different experiences...and then a pivotal day later in their lives.
The book is structured in two parts--leaving and coming home. In the first part, we glimpse the 4 siblings spinning away from home and finding their own lives; in the second part their being reeled back in as the story builds toward a Christmas Day climax with their mother, Rosaleen. The five points of view, then, represent the family. The short sections toward the end of the book feel a bit like unravelling, but not in a good way. Perhaps the novel ends in the wrong place?
This novel is so much like her earlier work, The Gathering. I found The Gathering to be much nore developed despite there being more children in the family. I haven't read any of Enright's other novels to make other comparisons, though they very much feel like Anne Tyler novels to me.
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