Anne Enright

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What Are You Like

Beschreibung

She has the same smile, but she is wearing the wrong clothes: she is the same, only different. Anne Enright's astonishing novel moves between Dublin, New York and London, following the lives of the real Maria and the girl in the picture.

Autor

Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday's Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and eight novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and The Green Road, which was the Bord Gáis Energy Novel of the Year and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. Her most recent novel, The Wren, The Wren, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, and in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature. She is also the recipient of the 2022 Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2024 Writers' Prize for Fiction, and the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 809532
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 131mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 197g
• ISBN-13: 9780099284345
• ISBN-10: 0099284340
• Artikelnr.: 23164617

Rezensionen

This book is so sad that you want to laugh out loud. It deals with areas of experience and patterns of living that no one else has noticed Colm Tóibín