The Green Road
by:
Anne Enright (author)
By the Booker Award-winning bestselling author of The Gathering, The Green Road is Anne Enright's virtuoso new novel, her most compelling and powerful to date A darkly glinting novel set mainly in a small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast, The Green Road is a story of fracture and family,...
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By the Booker Award-winning bestselling author of The Gathering, The Green Road is Anne Enright's virtuoso new novel, her most compelling and powerful to date A darkly glinting novel set mainly in a small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast, The Green Road is a story of fracture and family, selfishness and compassion -- a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we lear
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780771025143
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
The Green Road, Anne Enright, author; Lloyd James, Alana Kerr, Gerard Doyle, narrators I felt that this book was beautifully written and read. It takes place in Ireland, and the narrators mastered the brogue perfectly, using warm and expressive tones, bringing each character to life. The author capt...
bookshelves: published-2015, radio-4, spring-2015, britain-ireland, lit-richer, aga-saga, families Read from April 29 to May 16, 2015 BABThttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05stw87Description: A story of family, selfishness and compassion on Ireland's Atlantic coast, from the Man Booker Prize-wi...
From the beginning I was fascinated with the character of Rosaleen, this family matriarch of four, living in an unnamed village in County Clare. When her eldest son Doug tells the family he is going to be a priest, she takes to her bed for days. Two boys, two girls and we follow this family througho...