- Culture
- 03 Jun 15
Anne Enright - The Green Road
The novel is about an Irish family and all their problems in life from 1980 on and written in episodic style.
Anyone who has read Anne Enright’s previous work will know that this much loved Man Booker prize-winning author excels at map- ping the terrain of relationships. Enright’s new book The Green Road could be described as quintessentially Irish: being the story of the Madigan family complete with a domi- nant Irish Mammy matriarch, strained sibling and family relationships, as well as difficulties with alcohol, emotions and sexuality.
Beginning in 1980, the novel is written in episodic style; Enright explores the desires of each of the Madigan children to distance themselves from their origins, leaving West County Clare for Dublin, New York and humanitarian crises in Africa. When Mammy Rosaleen announces in 2005 that she plans on selling the family home, the children are drawn back again to spend one last Christmas there together. Written with sharply-observed detail and crisp prose, The Green Road is a difficult but rewarding novel.
RELATED
- Opinion
- 20 Dec 23
Armchair Theatre: The Best Books Of 2023
- Culture
- 06 Dec 23
Make Fear Your Friend: Gavin Friday and Peter & The Wolf
- Culture
- 30 Aug 23
Music Book Of The Month – Woody Guthrie: A Life by Joe Klein
- Culture
- 28 Jun 23
Music Book Of The Month – Nick Drake: The Life by Richard Morton Jack
- Opinion
- 25 May 23