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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780802118745
ISBN: 0802118747
Label: Grove Press
Manufacturer: Grove Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: September 01, 2008
Publisher: Grove Press
Sales Rank: 14786
Studio: Grove Press
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize, Anne Enright's novel The Gathering went on to become a national best seller acclaimed for its electrifying prose and haunting emotional resonance. Now, in Yesterday's Weather, Enright presents a series of deeply moving glimpses into a rapidly changing Ireland: a land of family and tradition, but also, increasingly, of organic radicchio, cruise-ship vacations, and casual betrayals. An artisan farmer seethes at the patronage of a former Catholic-school classmate, now a successful restaurateur; a bride cuckolds her rich husband with an old college friend—a madman who won't take his pills, disappears for weeks at a time, and plays the piano like a dream. Still more startling than loss or deception are the ways in which people respond to them: a wife eaten up by rage at her husband's infidelity must weigh the real stakes after his affair takes a tragic turn; confronted with a similar situation, a woman decides to cheat with, rather than against, her man. Sharp, tender, never predictable, the sum of these stories is a rich tapestry of people struggling to find contentment with one another—and with themselves.
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"Yesterday's Weather" collects a couple of decades' worth of short stories, arranged in reverse chronological order. The later stories are much like the earlier ones, though on average slightly more polished. Anne Enright's talent is for short stories rather than novels, and among short stories for the extended prose poem rather than the novella; the stories in this book are infinitely more satisfying than her ill-conceived (though locally brilliant) novel "The Gathering," and many of the best - ... Read More
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The Sunday Salon: Yesterday's Weather by Anne Enright
I found out about this novel via People Magazine's review section on books, some time ago. I ordered it immediately after reading the great review and 4 out of 4 stars rating.
I couldn't wait to read it and had hated putting it behind the publisher-provided books and book tour books... So, again.. for me a bad case of the "expectations" for me on this book. How do I stop that?
Now that I am reading 1-2 books ... Read More
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The quality of writing in this collection is consistent but unfortunately so is the emotional effect.
Although the stories ostensibly range from the mundane to the disturbing the real narrative always hovers close to sex and a bleary animal wistfulness, similar to the vague longing of a Raymond Carver novel, but without the focus or variety.
Some people are good writers without being good story tellers. The writing took me away but I often wished it was somewhere else and ... Read More
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This book of short stories was good from the first page to the last.
I would highly recommend this.
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