The Green Road, Anne Enright
The Green Road, Anne Enright
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The Green Road

Author: Anne Enright

Narrator: Alana Kerr Collins, Lloyd James, Gerard Doyle

Unabridged: 9 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/11/2015

Synopsis

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.

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 Alana Kerr Collins

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.

About Lloyd James

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. 

About Gerard Doyle

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Julie on June 26, 2015

Each time a new novel set in the European theatre of WWII emerges, the chorus of “Do we need another WWII novel? Haven’t all the stories already been told?” follows. And then we go on to devour the likes of The Narrow Road to the Deep North and All The Light We Cannot See. Good story is good story.......more

Goodreads review by Katie on January 30, 2021

My overriding impression here was that the quality of the writing deserved a much better novel. It certainly deserved more engaging characters. The Green Road is about a dysfunctional Irish family with chapters alternating between the five members. Often this form of structure causes problems becaus......more

Goodreads review by Ron on May 06, 2015

In the opening scene of Anne Enright’s new novel, the eldest son announces he’s going into the priesthood, and his Irish mother lets out a series of anguished cries and flees to her bedroom. “This was not the first time their mother took to the horizontal solution,” Enright writes, “but it was the l......more

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“An exquisitely drawn case for the possibility of growth, love, and transformation at any age.” People

“A master of emotional excavation…shows us the beauty even in life’s harsh terrain.” O, The Oprah Magazine

“A book of brawny prose sheathed in cool intelligence.” Economist (London)

“Enright masterfully reminds us of the weight of history and family.” The Guardian (London)

“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.” New York Times Book Review

“Arich, capacious story, buoyed by tender humor, something like Anne Tyler with a brogue.” Washington Post

“Enright’s razor-sharp writing turns every ordinary detail into a weapon, to create a story that cuts right to the bone.” New York Review of Books

“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.” AudioFile

“Flawless…This novel is a vibrant family portrait, both pitiless and compassionate, witty and stark.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“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)

Awards

  • Amazon Best Book of the Month
  • New York Times   Bestseller
  • Man Booker Prize Longlist
  • Carnegie Medal for Literature
  • Publishers Weekly Best Book
  • Telegraph (London) Best Books
  • Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books
  • Costa Book Award
  • PopSugar Best Books
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize
  • Baileys’ Women’s Prize for Fiction
  • Guardian Pick
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