Anne Enright

The Green Road Anne Enright

Marc Notes: Title from disc face.; Unabridged.; Compact disc.; Digitally mastered.; Read by Alana Kerr, Lloyd James, and Gerard Doyle.; Ardeevin, County Clare, Ireland. 1980. When her oldest brother Dan announces he will enter the priesthood, young Hanna watches her mother howl in agony and retreat to her room. In the years that follow, the Madigan children leave one by one. When Christmas Day reunites the children under one roof, each confronts the terrible weight of family ties and the journey that brought them home. Publisher Marketing: From internationally acclaimed, Man Booker Prize winning author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland s Atlantic coast. "The Green Road" is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and selfishness a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we strive to fill them. Spanning thirty years, "The Green Road" tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart. As they grow up, Rosaleen s four children leave the west of Ireland for lives they could have never imagined in Dublin, New York, and Mali, West Africa. In her early old age their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she s decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought and sold. A profoundly moving work about a family s desperate attempt to recover the relationships they ve lost and forge the ones they never had, "The Green Road" is Enright s most mature, accomplished, and unforgettable novel to date." Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/01/2014 pg. 66 (EAN 9780393248210, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2015 (EAN 9780393248210, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Publishers Weekly 03/02/2015 (EAN 9780393248210, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Booklist 03/15/2015 pg. 52 (EAN 9780393248210, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Library Journal 04/01/2015 pg. 73 (EAN 9780393248210, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 05/17/2015 pg. 9 (EAN 9780393248210, Hardcover) New Yorker (The) 05/25/2015 pg. 71 (EAN 9780393248210, Hardcover) People 06/01/2015 pg. 50 (EAN 9780393248210, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 05/24/2015 pg. 26 (EAN 9780393248210, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Enright, Anne Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has published three volumes of stories, one book of nonfiction, and five novels. In 2015, she was named the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction. Her novel The Gathering won the Man Booker Prize, and her last novel, The Forgotten Waltz, won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.