The Gathering by Anne Enright
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Book Reviews of The Gathering
Book Review: A stark, harsh, and powerful novel about ...
Summary: 5 Stars
(***** = breathtaking, **** = excellent, *** = good, ** = flawed, * = bad)
... 39 year-old Veronica who must claim the body of her favorite brother and arrange his funeral when he commits suicide. As her troubled siblings (9 still living of the original 12!) gather to drink and bicker in the family home at Dublin, Veronica tries to piece together the sinister events of one summer she can barely remember that she senses must have formed his destiny. Longer review at ImpatientReader-dot-com.
Book Review: lingering read
Summary: 5 Stars
This is not an easy read as previous reviewers have indicated. The prose is lyrical and compelling, but the main character's imaginings about her grandmother's life are off putting. Eventually it becomes clear why the writer included these sections. The reward for pushing through the difficult passages is an integrated story which urges readers to ponder the twin roles of memory and imagining in this fictional work as well as in the integration our own life stories.
Book Review: Sure, it's a wonderous, lighthearted, gothic tale.
Summary: 5 Stars
I almost didn't get this book because of the negative reviews. Something made me order it, but when it arrived, it sat on my bedside table for ages. After picking this book up, I can't wait to get back to it. The main character "remembers" things the way we all do - in distorted, jumbled, embelished or bare bones fragments. The language sounds to my inner ear like Joyce with syntax. I love this book, and will read it again to savor the imagery and language. Sliante!Book Review: Hard to read, indeed.
Summary: 5 Stars
I haven't ever written a review for Amazon, but when I saw that this book had not received five stars I was compelled to add my two cents. This is writing at the far end of fierce, and I would not recommend it to the faint of heart out for a good read. It is the unvarnished truth, a withering view of a landscape that does not suffer pretense. I am grateful to Ms Enright for her incandescent tale. This is familiar ground, and I welcomed the light.Book Review: Bleak and Realistic
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an extremely bleak and depressing book, capturing the various facets of a highly pathological family. It's not meant to an easy read but it's not difficult at all. Once you've built rapport with the author and tried to get inside the mind of Veronica, the narrator of the story, you'll start to empathize with the angst, anger, disappointment and disillusion, depicted in this family epic. edit | delete review