Anne Enright Attention : Writing on Life, Art & the World Hardcover Book

The first collection of Booker Prizewinning writer Anne Enrights nonfiction writing about culture, literature and her own lifeAnne Enright might just be Irelands greatest living writer THE TIMESA joy to read MAGGIE OFARRELLFor thirty years Anne Enright has been paying attention casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature and her own life, and gifting us with her precise insights. These essays, collated from across Enrights career, take us from Dublin to Galway, Canada to Honduras. They delve into Enrights own family history, and explore the free voices and controlled bodies of women in society and fiction. She offers new perspectives on writers including Alice Munro, Toni Morrison, James Joyce, Helen Garner and Angela Carter. In Enrights fiction, speech can transform, rupture, enliven and liberate. In these essays, she speaks to us directly. Electrifying, probing and exuberant, this is a defining collection from one of our most distinguished literary voices. One of the best essayists alive MEGAN NOLAN, OBSERVERConfirms the intelligence, compassion and humour of the mind behind the novels INDEPENDENTA glorious antidote to the mad, sad world EIMEAR MCBRIDESo alert, so attuned, so alive LUCY CALDWELL | Anne Enright Attention : Writing on Life, Art & the World Hardcover Book