Gathering anne

  Author(s): Anne Enright  Title:      The Gathering  ISBN:  978 0 099 52382 6  Publisher: Vintage  This Edition: Vintage edition 2007  Place Of Publication: Great Britain First Published: 2007 (Jonathan Cape)  Binding: paperback Number of pages: 260  Weight: 145g Condition:   Cover has some minor scuffing; otherwise good   

Softcover. English. Jonathan Cape. 2007. 261pp. In fair/good condition. The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother, Liam, drowned in the sea. 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. As Enright traces the line of betrayal and redemption through three generations her distinctive intelligence twists the world a fraction and gives it back to us in a new and unforgettable light. The Gathering is a daring, witty, and insightful family epic, clarified through Anne Enright’s unblinking eye. It is a novel about love and disappointment, about how memories warp and secrets fester, and how fate is written in the body, not in the stars.