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'''''The Gathering''''' is a [[2007 in literature|2007]] novel by [[Irish people|Irish]] [[women's fiction]] writer [[Anne Enright]]. It won the 2007 [[Booker Prize]], eventually chosen unanimously by the jury after having largely been considered an outsider to win the prize.<ref name=iol>[http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=234661692&p=z3466z398 Enright takes Booker Prize for Fiction]. Ireland On-Line. (16 October 2007). Retrieved on 17 October 2007.</ref><ref name=man>{{cite web| title = The Gathering wins the Man Booker Prize 2007| publisher = The Man Booker Prize| date = 2007-10-16| url = http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/1004| accessdate = 2007-10-17| deadurl = yes| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20071021083600/http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/1004| archivedate = 2007-10-21| df = }}</ref> Although it received mostly favourable reviews on its first publication, sales of the book had been modest before it was named as one of the six books on the Man Booker Prize shortlist in September 2007. After winning the prize, sales more than doubled compared to sales before the announcement.<ref name=rickett>{{Citation| last = Rickett| first= Joel| title = The bookseller| newspaper = [[The Guardian]]| date = 2007-10-20| url = http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2195365,00.html| accessdate = 2007-10-20 }}</ref><ref name=lyall>{{Citation| last = Lyall| first = Sarah| title = Anne Enright Wins Man Booker Prize| newspaper = [[The New York Times]]| date = 2007-10-17| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/17/books/17cnd-booker.html| accessdate = 2007-10-17 }}</ref><ref name=purcell>{{Citation| last = Purcell| first = Bernard| last2 = Battersby| first2 = Eileen| title = Irish novelist beats the odds to win Booker Prize for 'The Gathering'| newspaper = [[The Irish Times]]| date = 2007-10-17| url = http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2007/1017/1192565609148.html| accessdate = 2007-10-17 }}</ref> Enright described the book as "...the intellectual equivalent of a [[Hollywood]] [[weepie]]."<ref name=lawless>{{Citation
'''''The Gathering''''' is a [[2007 in literature|2007]] novel by [[Irish people|Irish]] [[women's fiction]] writer [[Anne Enright]]. It won the 2007 [[Booker Prize]], eventually chosen unanimously by the jury after having largely been considered an outsider to win the prize.<ref name=iol>[http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=234661692&p=z3466z398 Enright takes Booker Prize for Fiction]. Ireland On-Line. (16 October 2007). Retrieved on 17 October 2007.</ref><ref name=man>{{cite web| title = The Gathering wins the Man Booker Prize 2007| publisher = The Man Booker Prize| date = 2007-10-16| url = http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/1004| accessdate = 2007-10-17| deadurl = yes| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20071021083600/http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/1004| archivedate = 2007-10-21| df = }}</ref> Although it received mostly favourable reviews on its first publication, sales of the book had been modest before it was named as one of the six books on the Booker Prize shortlist in September 2007. After winning the prize, sales more than doubled compared to sales before the announcement.<ref name=rickett>{{Citation| last = Rickett| first= Joel| title = The bookseller| newspaper = [[The Guardian]]| date = 2007-10-20| url = http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2195365,00.html| accessdate = 2007-10-20 }}</ref><ref name=lyall>{{Citation| last = Lyall| first = Sarah| title = Anne Enright Wins Man Booker Prize| newspaper = [[The New York Times]]| date = 2007-10-17| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/17/books/17cnd-booker.html| accessdate = 2007-10-17 }}</ref><ref name=purcell>{{Citation| last = Purcell| first = Bernard| last2 = Battersby| first2 = Eileen| title = Irish novelist beats the odds to win Booker Prize for 'The Gathering'| newspaper = [[The Irish Times]]| date = 2007-10-17| url = http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2007/1017/1192565609148.html| accessdate = 2007-10-17 }}</ref> Enright described the book as "...the intellectual equivalent of a [[Hollywood]] [[weepie]]."<ref name=lawless>{{Citation
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The Gathering
First edition
AuthorAnne Enright
Cover artistAndrew Richards
LanguageEnglish
PublisherJonathan Cape
Publication date
3 May 2007
Publication placeIreland
Media typePrint (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages272 pp (hardcover)
ISBN0-224-07873-9
OCLC77540525
LC ClassPR6055.N73 G38 2007

The Gathering is a 2007 novel by Irish women's fiction writer Anne Enright. It won the 2007 Booker Prize, eventually chosen unanimously by the jury after having largely been considered an outsider to win the prize.[1][2] Although it received mostly favourable reviews on its first publication, sales of the book had been modest before it was named as one of the six books on the Booker Prize shortlist in September 2007. After winning the prize, sales more than doubled compared to sales before the announcement.[3][4][5] Enright described the book as "...the intellectual equivalent of a Hollywood weepie."[6]

The novel traces the narrator's inner journey, setting out to derive meaning from past and present events, and takes place in Ireland and England. Its title refers to the funeral of Liam Hegarty, an alcoholic who took his own life in the sea at Brighton. His mother and eight of the nine surviving Hegarty children gather in Dublin for his wake. The novel's narrator is 39-year-old Veronica, the sibling who was closest to Liam. She looks through her family's troubled history to try to make sense of his death. She thinks that the reason for his alcoholism lies in something that happened to him in his childhood when he stayed in his grandmother's house, and uncovers uncomfortable truths about her family.[6][7][8]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Enright takes Booker Prize for Fiction. Ireland On-Line. (16 October 2007). Retrieved on 17 October 2007.
  2. ^ "The Gathering wins the Man Booker Prize 2007". The Man Booker Prize. 2007-10-16. Archived from the original on 2007-10-21. Retrieved 2007-10-17. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ Rickett, Joel (2007-10-20), "The bookseller", The Guardian, retrieved 2007-10-20
  4. ^ Lyall, Sarah (2007-10-17), "Anne Enright Wins Man Booker Prize", The New York Times, retrieved 2007-10-17
  5. ^ Purcell, Bernard; Battersby, Eileen (2007-10-17), "Irish novelist beats the odds to win Booker Prize for 'The Gathering'", The Irish Times, retrieved 2007-10-17
  6. ^ a b Lawless, Jill (2007-10-16), "Anne Enright Wins Booker Prize", The Washington Post, retrieved 2007-10-17
  7. ^ "Low-profile literary purist gatecrashes Booker party", Irish Independent, 2007-10-17, retrieved 2007-10-17
  8. ^ Schillinger, Liesl (2007-09-30), "Liam's Wake", The New York Times, retrieved 2007-10-17
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