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From internationally acclaimed, Man Booker Prize–winning author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland’s Atlantic coast. The Green Road is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and selfishness—a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we strive to fill them.
Spanning thirty years, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart. As they grow up, Rosaleen’s four children leave the west of Ireland for lives they could have never imagined in Dublin, New York, and Mali, West Africa. In her early old age their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she’s decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought and sold.
A profoundly moving work about a family’s desperate attempt to recover the relationships they’ve lost and forge the ones they never had, The Green Road is Enright’s most mature, accomplished, and unforgettable novel to date.
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“Enright trails the Madigans over three decades, illuminating their trials and triumphs as reflective of not only their distinctive personalities and personal interests but also Irish society moving into the modern era of contraception, economic boom and bust, and open homosexuality.”
— Booklist (starred review)
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“An exquisitely drawn case for the possibility of growth, love, and transformation at any age.”
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“A master of emotional excavation…shows us the beauty even in life’s harsh terrain.”
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“A book of brawny prose sheathed in cool intelligence.”
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“Enright masterfully reminds us of the weight of history and family.”
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“An impressive novel that bounces its readers through some fairly rocky terrain… Enright writes with authority and confidence not just about her native Ireland but about the AIDS-stricken New York in which Dan is making his way and the poverty-stricken Mali.”
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“Arich, capacious story, buoyed by tender humor, something like Anne Tyler with a brogue.”
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“Enright’s razor-sharp writing turns every ordinary detail into a weapon, to create a story that cuts right to the bone.”
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“Alana Kerr uses a light Irish accent to narrate the chapters about the widowed mother and her daughters…Soft-spoken Lloyd James and the gruffer Gerard Doyle narrate the sections about the brothers, one coming to terms with his sexuality and the other an aid worker in Africa.”
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“Flawless…This novel is a vibrant family portrait, both pitiless and compassionate, witty and stark.”
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“This is prime Enright territory, the fertile soil of home and history, cash and clan…allowing Enright plenty of space to convey her brilliant ear for dialogue, her soft wit, and piercing, poetic sense of life’s larger abstractions.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month in Literature for May 2015
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A New York Times Editor’s Choice
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A 2015 Man Booker Prize Longlist Book
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A Carnegie Medal for Literature Longlist Selection
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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2015
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A Telegraph (London) Best Books of 2015 Selection
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A Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2015 Selection
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Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Book Award
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A PopSugar Best Books Selection of 2015
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A 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for Fiction
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A 2016 Baileys’ Women’s Prize for Fiction Shortlist Selection
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A London Guardian Pick of Best Books of the 21st Century
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About Anne Enright
Anne Enright is the author of two volumes of stories and several novels, including The Forgotten Waltz and The Gathering, which won the Man Booker Prize.
About the Narrators
Alana Kerr Collins is an Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator. She is also an actor, puppeteer, and singer who studied at the Impulse Company in London and earned a BA in drama and English at the University of Dublin, Trinity College. She starred in the short films Rachel 9000, The Deal, and Veritas and has appeared in several television series, including Emu and Big City Park.
Alana Kerr Collins is an Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator. She is also an actor, puppeteer, and singer who studied at the Impulse Company in London and earned a BA in drama and English at the University of Dublin, Trinity College. She starred in the short films Rachel 9000, The Deal, and Veritas and has appeared in several television series, including Emu and Big City Park.
Lloyd James (a.k.a. Sean Pratt) has been a working professional actor in theater, film, television, and voice-overs for more than thirty years. He has narrated over one thousand audiobooks and won numerous Earphones Awards and nominations for the Audie Award and the Voice Arts Award. He holds a BFA degree in acting from Santa Fe University, New Mexico.
Gerard Doyle, a seasoned audio narrator, he has been awarded dozens of AudioFile Earphones Awards, was named a Best Voice in Young Adult Fiction in 2008, and won the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. He was born of Irish parents and raised and educated in England. In Great Britain he has enjoyed an extensive career in both television and repertory theater and toured nationally and internationally with the English Shakespeare Company. He has appeared in London’s West End in the gritty musical The Hired Man. In America he has appeared on Broadway in The Weir and on television in New York Undercover and Law & Order. He has taught drama at Ross School for the several years.