The Green Road - Irish Classics
The Green Road - Irish Classics
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Published:
2 May, 2019
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Description
A book about family, selfishness and compassion on Ireland’s Atlantic coast, from the Booker Prize-winner.
Hanna, Dan, Constance and Emmet return to the west coast of Ireland for a final family Christmas in the home their mother is about to sell. As the feast turns to near painful comedy, a last, desperate act from Rosaleen – a woman who doesn't quite know how to love her own children – forces them to confront the weight of family ties and the road that brought them home.
See also: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award
Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize
**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
Prizes
Winner of Bord G is Energy Irish Book Awards - Eason Novel of the Year 2015 (UK),Winner of Kerry Group Novel of the Year 2016 (UK),Short-listed for Costa Novel Award 2016 (UK),Short-listed for Baileys Womens Prize for Fiction 2016 (UK),Short-listed for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2017 (UK),Long-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2015 (UK)
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781784875510 |
| ISBN10 | 1784875511 |
| Number Of Pages | 336 |
| Item Weight | 240 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 198 x 20 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
Confirms her as one of the most significant writers of her generation.... A master. She has certainly produced a masterly work. * Sunday Times *
The Green Road is true and rueful, as terribly adult in its clarity as its battered Madigans. -- James Wood * New Yorker *
Enright is a shape-shifter who gets into the nerve centres of her creations; the power of her prose lies in its absence of ego. The Green Road is a devastating novel about home and how savage a place it can be. -- Frances Wilson * New Statesman *
This novel should confirm Enright’s status as one of our (their?) greatest living novelists. I hope she can be persuaded to do a sequel. -- John Sutherland * The Times *
[A] brilliant, devastating, radical novel. -- Kate Clanchy * Guardian *
‘[Enright] is that rare thing: a very, very good writer… I settled into the book in a way I hadn’t done for weeks; the world of it seemed to me more transfixingly real than anything else, for the time I was reading it. When a writer of Enright’s quality pays such attention to the way that things really are, all we can do is pay rapt attention back. -- Emma Townshend * Independent On Sunday *
Enright has written yet another wise and sophisticated novel... Simple and brilliant. You can’t even really call this ‘brave’ writing, because what makes Enright so good is the feeling that she was never afraid in the first place -- Claire Lowdon * Literary Review *
Superb. -- Terry Eagleton * London Review of Books *
An intense and thought-provoking read about family, behaviour and consequences… Will resonate long after the final page. -- Jacqueline Kilikita * Stylist *
Enright is a writer with a wonderful and enviable lightness of touch… This is a wholly delightful novel, and a wise one. -- Allan Massie * Scotsman *
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Author's Bio
Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday's Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and eight novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Other award include the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for The Forgotten Waltz, the Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award and Novel of the Year (which she has won twice), the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature and the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction. Most recently she won the 2024 Writers' Prize for Fiction and the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction.