The Forgotten Waltz
by Enright, Anne
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About This Item
New York: W. W, Norton & Company, 2011. First American Edition [stated]. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good. 263, [7] pages. Signed by author on the title page. Partial genealogical table written in ink on fep. Cover has slight wear, a small scuff at front, and minor soiling. No Dust Jacket present. Some edge soiling. Anne Teresa Enright FRSL (born 11 October 1962) is an Irish author. She has published novels, short stories, essays, and one non-fiction book. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, her novel The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. She has also won the 1991 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the 2001 Encore Award and the 2008 Irish Novel of the Year. Before winning the Man Booker Prize, Enright had a low profile in Ireland and the United Kingdom, although her books were favorably reviewed and widely praised. Her writing explores themes such as family relationships, love and sex, Ireland's difficult past and its modern zeitgeist. In 2015, Enright was appointed as the inaugural Laureate of Irish Fiction by Taoiseach Enda Kenny. During her time as Laureate for Irish Fiction, Enright promoted people's engagement with Irish literature through public lectures and creative writing classes. In this extraordinary novel, Anne Enright explores the momentous drama of everyday life; the volatile connections between people; the wry, accurate take on families, marriage, and brittle middle age. In Terenure, a pleasant suburb of Dublin, it has snowed. Gina Moynihan, girl about town, recalls the trail of lust and happenstance that brought her to fall for "the love of her life," Seán Vallely. As the city outside comes to a halt, Gina remembers their affair: long afternoons made blank by bliss and denial. Now, as the silent streets and falling snow make the day luminous and full of possibility, Gina awaits the arrival of Seán's fragile, twelve-year-old daughter, Evie - the complication, and gravity, of this second life. With The Forgotten Waltz Enright turns her attention to love, following another unforgettable heroine on a journey of the heart. Writing at the height of her powers, this is Enright's tour de force, a novel of intelligence, passion, and distinction.
Synopsis
ANNE ENRIGHT's most recent novel, The Gathering , won the 2007 Man Booker Prize and is a Canadian and international bestseller. Enright is also the author of the novels: The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch , What Are You Like? , and The Wig My Father Wore , and the short story collection The Portable Virgin . She lives in Dublin. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 73553
- Title
- The Forgotten Waltz
- Author
- Enright, Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition [stated]. First Printing [Stated]
- Publisher
- W. W, Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- Irish, Adultery, Dublin, Heroine, Families, Marriage, Middle Age, Terenure, Gina Moynihan, Lust, Sean Vallely, Love Affair, Everyday Life, Evie Vallely, Love Child, Passion
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