![]() ![]() It is the only way I know to make the day end. There are long stretches of time when I don't know what I am doing, or what I have done - nothing mostly, but sometimes it would be nice to know what kind of nothing that was.I try not to drink before half past five, but I always do drink - from the top of the wine bottle to the last, little drop. They seem to grow like plants, to be made of twig and blossom and not of meat. So I left the house with a howl of regret for all I had been denied, though there was nothing there I actually wanted. 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. And I didn't seem to mind the inverted commas. 'The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother, Liam, drowned in the sea. This is a story that revolves around the narrator. I could pick up my keys and go 'home' where I could 'have sex' with my 'husband' just like lots of other people did. The Gathering is a book by Anne Enright that won the Man Booker Prize in 2007. that I was living my life in inverted commas. The Gathering sends fresh blood through the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new. This is a novel about love and disappointment, about how fate is written in the body, not in the stars. And besides - who is to say what is the first and what is the final cause? The Gathering is a family epic, clarified through Anne Enright’s unblinking eye. “Because a mother's love is God's greatest joke. ![]()
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