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The Green Road: A Novel
by Anne Enright

Published: 2015-05-11
Hardcover : 304 pages
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Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize.

From internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast. The Green Road is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and selfishness?a book about the gaps in the human heart and ...

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Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize.

From internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast. The Green Road is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and selfishness?a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we strive to fill them.

Spanning thirty years, The Green Road 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.

A profoundly moving work about a family's desperate attempt to recover the relationships they've lost and forge the ones they never had, The Green Road is Enright's most mature, accomplished, and unforgettable novel to date.

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by Kelly R. (see profile) 06/30/17

 
  "An interesting exploration of relationships, hopes, dreams, life and death."by Gail R. (see profile) 07/22/15

The Green Road, Anne Enright, author; Lloyd James, Alana Kerr, Gerard Doyle, narrators
I felt that this book was beautifully written and read. It takes place in Ireland, and the narrators m
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