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The green road

"Spanning thirty years, [this book] tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart. As they grow up, Rosaleen's four children leave the west of Ireland for lives they could have never imagined in Dublin, N...

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Main Author: Enright, Anne, 1962- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Families > Fiction.
Adult children > Fiction.
House selling > Fiction.
Ireland > Fiction.
Domestic fiction > Ireland.
Summary: "Spanning thirty years, [this book] tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart. As they grow up, Rosaleen's four children leave the west of Ireland for lives they could have never imagined in Dublin, New York, and Mali, West Africa. In her early old age, their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she's decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought and sold"--Dust jacket flap.
Item Description: "A novel"--Jacket.
Physical Description: 309 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN: 9780393248210 (hbk.)
0393248216 (hbk.)
Author Notes: Anne Teresa Enright (born 11 October 1962) is an Irish author. She received an English and philosophy degree from Trinity College, Dublin. Enright is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; her novel The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. She has also won the 1991 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the 2001 Encore Award and the 2008 Irish Novel of the Year. Enright's writings have appeared in several magazines, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, the London Review of Books, The Dublin Review and the Irish Times. In 2015 she made the New Zealand Best Seller List with her title The Green Road. This title also made the Costa Book Award 2015 shortlist in the UK. It also won the Irish Book Award for Novel of the Year.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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