The Green Road Lib/E (CD-Audio)

from gayla.bassham

I liked this quite a lot -- I'm not always crazy about Anne Enright's work, but The Green Road really worked for me. The characters were all fully fleshed-out--I thought Dan and Constance were particularly well handled--and the second half of the book manages to have both an elegiac quality and a...

from EBT1002

Oh good. A family drama. Just what I (don't) love. But this one manages to just skate past petulance and embrace poignance instead. Set, or, more accurately, anchored in a small town in Ireland, The Green Road starts by introducing four siblings, each of whom has struggled with the legacy of an i...

from oldblack

A very fine novel, in my opinion. The story of an aging Irish matriarch and her family as they come together at christmas from their disparate locations and lifestyles. A reader might ask how the one family could have children who became so different from each other, but I'm here to tell that rea...

from lit_chick

"It still got to them. Rosaleen never said it to your face, whatever it was. She moved instead around and behind her children, in some churning state of mild and constant distraction ... She was afraid it was all her fault ... All the things that were unsayable: failure, money, sex, drink." (224)...

from Cariola

In the past, I've generally found Anne Enright's novels to be rather depressing. This one, too, has its dark moments, but it also has moments of love, hope, and humor. Rosaleen, an Irish woman in her 70s, has called her four children home for Christmas, telling them that she plans to sell the fam...