Summary
The Gathering (Grove)
In Anne Enright's Booker Prize-winning novel about a family wake, the narrator remembers, lies, invents and imagines with equal ardor.
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| 0:00.0 | Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. |
| 0:07.2 | You are a human animal. |
| 0:11.3 | You are a very special breed. |
| 0:15.1 | Or you are the only animal. |
| 0:18.4 | Who can think, who can reason, who can read. |
| 0:22.6 | From KCRW Santa Monica, |
| 0:24.5 | I'm Michael Silverblatt, |
| 0:25.9 | and this is Bookworm. |
| 0:27.4 | Today I'm very pleased |
| 0:28.6 | to have as my guest, |
| 0:30.1 | Anne Enright, |
| 0:31.2 | whose newest novel, |
| 0:32.3 | The Gathering, |
| 0:33.5 | published by |
| 0:34.5 | the Black Cat Insignia |
| 0:36.7 | of Grove Press. |
| 0:39.5 | She's won the Man Booker Prize for 2007, |
| 0:43.8 | and it's a very interesting novel, The Gathering, |
| 0:48.1 | in that it works a kind of variant on the internal monologue. |
| 1:00.1 | Most of the time, those monologues, most famously Molly Blooms at the end of Ulysses, also Edna O'Brien's novel, Knight, are made at night by |
| 1:08.8 | unconscious people, written by an author who has access to the internal |
| 1:14.6 | workings of the character's thoughts. This character, this narrator, Veronica, is a writer |
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