Second, because Enright is perfectly aware that stories of big Irish families always follow the same pattern and is not afraid to make a virtue of this fact: "There is always a drunk. First, because you can't seriously write a book about Ireland and not mention tea. Yes, plenty of the book exists on the wrong side of cliche, but my list was unfair. At that stage, however, I wasn't feeling vindicated, so much as ridiculous. So, by page 50 nearly two-thirds of my predictions had been proved correct. (Doesn't appear) A schoolteacher who instils a love of books in the author. () A schoolteacher given over to corporal punishment. More turn out to have died on page 10) A grandparent, close to death. () One of these children is sexually abused. (Doesn't appear, but there is a brother Liam who neatly fits this description) Harried mother, living harried life in an old-fashioned kitchen. (Doesn't appear) Humorous uncle - also drunk, but good for the craic and a great source of slightly ribald jokes. As I read through I marked down where they initially occur in the book.ĭrunken father, who veers between maudlin sentimentality and maudlin violence. So great was my prejudice, and so bad my mood after three hours of housework drudgery when I came to the book late on Friday night, that as a spiteful little experiment I gathered up my big bag of Irish-childhood cliches and wrote down the first ones that popped out. I still expected to have heard it all before. No matter that The Gathering is a work of fiction and that Enright has a reputation as one of the most talented writers in Ireland today. All of which is a long way of explaining why I approached Anne Enright's story of a big Dublin family and its murky past with considerable cynicism. Urn:oclc:494594671 Scandate 20110814004948 Scanner I found Angela's Ashes touching, but as soon as Frank McCourt's brother got in on the act, not to mention all the subsequent McAuthors eager to sell their history to the kind of Americans who like to think they have Celtic blood, I found I'd had more than enough of big families, bad parents, worse nuns and dipsomaniac uncles with the gift of the gab. OL16078783W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 91.30 Pages 278 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1410403157 Urn:lcp:gathering00enri:epub:9de16e3b-f6c8-4660-bf70-d1984dd467bd Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier gathering00enri Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7tm85g55 Isbn 9780802170392Ģ008360145 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:04:00 Boxid IA136501 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Containerid_2 X0001 Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st pbk.
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