![]() The "Gathering" sends fresh blood through the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new. ![]() This is a novel about love and disappointment, about thwarted lust and limitless desire, and how our fate is written in the body, not in the stars. It is also a sexual history: tracing the line of hurt and redemption through three generations - starting with the grandmother, Ada Merriman - showing how memories warp and family secrets fester. ![]() The "Gathering" is a family epic, condensed and clarified through the remarkable lens of Anne Enright's unblinking eye. His sister, Veronica was there then, as she is now: keeping the dead man company, just for another little while. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968. ![]() The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. ![]()
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