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London Review of Books
'...you are drawn in to explore, allured by their dark brilliance'
The Daily Telegraph
`the quality of the writing should help to explain Enright's having won the 2007 Man Booker Prize'
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I often read reviews, but I am not very often moved to write them. Anne Enright's novel 'The Gathering' so annoyed and disappointed me that I made an exception on its behalf. Basically, I felt she was doing a poor impression of A.L.Kennedy, whose writing I admire so much. This seemed especially true in the sexual candour department, which in Enright's case seemed slightly forced and clumsy.
It was therefore with very low expectations that I borrowed this collection of short stories from my sister. I am delighted to say that I have pretty much changed my mind. I am not quite finished this book but so far, every new story defies my inclination towards skepticism, and there is something here which(for me)resonates in a way I have only previously found with Kennedy and Raymond Carver.
I still think someone owes a lot to someone else's style, but now I'm not sure who is emulating who.
It was therefore with very low expectations that I borrowed this collection of short stories from my sister. I am delighted to say that I have pretty much changed my mind. I am not quite finished this book but so far, every new story defies my inclination towards skepticism, and there is something here which(for me)resonates in a way I have only previously found with Kennedy and Raymond Carver.
I still think someone owes a lot to someone else's style, but now I'm not sure who is emulating who.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Fragmented and illuminating
23 Sep 2009
Format:Hardcover
First, this volume of Enright shorts is, so far as I can gather, the same book marketed in America as,'Yesterday's Weather'. Who knows what drives such decisions, but,'Weather' is a far stronger and convincing story than,'Pictures'. Amazon reviewers have quite varied responses to,'Weather' and I suspect this is partly due to the uneveness of the stories, some being not less realised, but more fragmenetary glimpses into the consciousness of the narrator or subject, who is always a woman. This presents no obstacle for me. I welcome, as with the superb Alice Munro, this access into feminine consciousness. And if that, as with Enright, is so much to do with the sexual dynamism, the bemused entanglement with men, then so much the better. Enright has a gift for unleashing the most unpredictable turns of phrase, keeping this reader on the edge of the seat.'Honey', 'Shaft', 'Bad sex weekend','Switzerland'; there are any number of glimpses that are superbly paced and evocative of contemporary angst. 'What are You Like', is a full length Enright novel which has much the same stylistic construction , and for this reader, was a more demanding effort on my concentration.
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