One of the Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
"With language so vibrant it practically has a pulse, Enright makes an exquisitely drawn case for the possibility of growth, love and transformation at any age." —People
“Impressive…Enright writes with authority and confidence…Though stories end,
The Green Road seems to say, the lives of the people who inhabit them go on.”
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David Leavitt, The New York Times Book Review“Enright…is a master of emotional excavation. …Through her wise and majestic book, [she] shows us the beauty even in life’s harsh terrain.”
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Karen E. Bender, O Magazine“A rich, capacious story, buoyed by tender humor….
The Green Road…offers a survey of Enright’s magnificent dexterity…. There’s nothing she can’t do with perspective, tone and time.”
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Ron Charles, Washington Post“The story of an Irish family, [
The Green Road] is the kind of book that refuses quick characterization: it is sprawling and intimate, anguished and hopeful, elliptical and intensely observed.”
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Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker“This looping story of four siblings coping differently with the smothering embrace of their amusingly melodramatic mother…may be even better than its close cousin,
The Gathering, which won the 2007 Booker prize. As locales shift from a stubby Irish village to AIDS-ravaged gay Manhattan and famine-torn Mali, so do the tone and point of view, over which Enright exercises perfect control.”
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Boris Kachka, New York Magazine“Gripping.”
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Vanity Fair“Hugely readable….
The Green Road should confirm Enright’s status as one of our greatest living novelists.”
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John Sutherland, The Times (UK)“Enright possesses an unusual combination of talents. She is a rich, lyrical prose writer, who cascades among novelties―again and again, she finds the unexpected adjective, the just noun.”
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James Wood, The New Yorker
