Actress

ISBN-13: 9781529112139 / Angielski / 2020 / 272 str.

Anne Enright

Opis

From the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughters search to understand her mothers hidden truths.This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine ODell, as told by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and Londons West End. Katherines life is a grand performance, with young Norah watching from the wings.But this romance between mother and daughter cannot survive Katherines past, or the worlds damage. As Norah uncovers her mothers secrets, she acquires a few of her own. Then, fame turns to infamy when Katherine decides to commit a bizarre crime.Actress is about a daughters search for the truth: the dark secret in the bright star, and what drove Katherine finally mad.Brilliantly capturing the glamour of post-war America and the shabbiness of 1970s Dublin, Actress is an intensely moving, disturbing novel about mothers and daughters and the men in their lives. A scintillating examination of the corrosive nature of celebrity, it is also a sad and triumphant tale of freedom from bad love, and from the avid gaze of the crowd.

Recenzje

A perfect jewel of a book, a dark emerald set in the Irish laureate's fictional tiara, alongside her Man Booker Prize winner The Gathering (2007) and The Green Road (2015). Its brilliance is complex and multifaceted, but completely lucid... Actress is a deeply humane, often darkly funny novel about the exercise of power over sexually attractive women. The grim subject matter is illuminated by Enright's acute sensitivity to language... Enright proves, once again, her genius. Ruth Scurr Spectator

O autorze

Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday's Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and seven novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and The Green Road, which was the Bord Gáis Energy Novel of the Year and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, and in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature. She is also the recipient of the 2022 Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award.