The Forgotten Waltz
by:
Anne Enright (author)
2012 Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Award for Excellence in Literature "This stunning novel by a Booker Prize winner . . . Offers up its brilliance by way of astonishingly effective storytelling."—Booklist, starred review"A new, unapologetic kind of adultery novel. Narrated by the proverbial...
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2012 Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Award for Excellence in Literature "This stunning novel by a Booker Prize winner . . . Offers up its brilliance by way of astonishingly effective storytelling."—Booklist, starred review"A new, unapologetic kind of adultery novel. Narrated by the proverbial other woman—Gina Moynihan, a sharp, sexy, darkly funny thirtysomething IT worker—The Forgotten Waltz charts an extramarital affair from first encounter to arranged, settled, everyday domesticity. . . . This novel’s beauty lies in Enright’s spare, poetic, off-kilter prose—at once heartbreaking and subversively funny. It’s built of startling little surprises and one fresh sentence after another. Enright captures the heady eroticism of an extramarital affair and the incendiary egomania that accompanies secret passion: For all their utter ordinariness, Sean and Gina feel like the greatest lovers who've ever lived.”—Elle
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393342581 (0393342581)
ASIN: 393342581
Publish date: April 2nd 2012
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Irish Literature,
Contemporary,
Ireland,
Relationships
Picked this up after it won the Carnegie prize. Not my usual scene, but I loved the prose and the complicated main character.
This Orange prize nominee is a bit disappointing if I'm honest. The human emotion is real and honest. What happens in the book can happen to anyone - and that made me profoundly sad. But... Maybe I'm still to young or optimistic for this and would love it in a few years. Who knows?
Hmm. Nee, da hatte ich mehr erwartet.
blurb - In a snow blanketed Dublin, Gina reflects on the last decade, from the moment she first caught a glimpse of Sean Vallely, through a haze of cigarette smoke, through the happenstance and lust, the hotel rooms and the secrets, that have brought down two marriages, three mortgages and left her ...
I liked this a lot more than most of the other reviewers - The dispassionate writing, the minute observations of each flinch and gesture in a marriage, the sudden passions of an unexpected affair and the observations of brittle middle age. I aso really liked the flawed heroine.