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    A Study Guide for Ann Enwright's "The Gathering"
    A Study Guide for Ann Enwright's "The Gathering"
    A Study Guide for Ann Enwright's "The Gathering"
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    A Study Guide for Ann Enwright's "The Gathering"

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    A Study Guide for Ann Enwright's "The Gathering," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Newsmakers for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literary Newsmakers for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 20, 2016
    ISBN9781535836753
    A Study Guide for Ann Enwright's "The Gathering"

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      The Gathering

      Anne Enright

      2007

      Introduction

      The Gathering (2007) is Anne Enright's fourth, and most critically acclaimed, novel. Awarded the Booker Prize the year it was published, Enright's meditation on memory melds past and present to tell the story of a large Irish family and the suicidal death of one of its members. The author's writing style, by turns experimental, surreal, and earthy, has been compared with that of Don DeLillo, John Banville, and Patrick McCabe, among others. The exploration of domestic relationships, especially between mothers and daughters, is a recurrent theme in her work, and one that has been favorably compared with the novels of Anne Tyler.

      Veronica Hegarty, the narrator and central character of The Gathering, suffers a breakdown after her brother Liam fills his pockets with stones and walks into the sea. His death prompts her to plumb three generations of family history in search of the truth of a tragic event from their childhood. The old secrets, memories, and betrayals that become dislodged in her search of the past have a profound effect on Veronica's relationship with her husband and children in the present. Though filled with death, disappointment, possible sexual abuse, and mental instability, The Gathering is a lyrical—and often humorous—work that captures the best and worst parts of being a member of a large and complicated family.

      Author Biography

      Anne Enright was born on October 11, 1962, in Dublin, Ireland, to Donal and Cora Enright. Both parents were civil servants. After growing up in the suburbs of Dublin, Enright received a scholarship to attend Pearson College in Canada from 1979 to 1981. She completed her degree in modern English and philosophy at Trinity College in Dublin from 1981 to 1985. During that time, Enright was writing for Irish television and theater and acting with the Dublin theater groups Rough Magic Theatre and The Abbey. After graduating from Trinity College, she received a scholarship to the University of East Anglia where she completed a master of arts in creative writing under the tutelage of Malcolm Bradbury and Angela Carter. In 1989, Enright's first short story was published in the Faber & Faber, Ltd. anthology series First Fictions. This led to Enright obtaining an agent and an advance on a short story collection.

      The collection The Portable Virgin was published in 1991 and won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in the

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