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The Portable Virgin
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Discover Man Booker winner Anne Enright’s first collection of short stories.’Elegant, scrupulously poised, always intelligent and, not least, original’ Angela Carter The characters in Anne Enright’s fierce and witty first collection of stories stand at an oblique angle to society. Full of desire, but out of kilter, their response to a dislocated reality is mutinous, wild, unforgettable.’Quirky, subversive, original wit and an imaginative linguistic fluency’ Irish Times
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| Weight | 0.106 kg |
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| Dimensions | 0.7 × 12.9 × 19.7 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 144 |
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| Year Published | 1998-9-3 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099437392 |
| About The Author | 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 and the 2024 Writers' Prize for Fiction. |
Witty and acerbic…unusual and elegant. She is a writer to watch |
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| Other text | Introduces a new voice in Irish fiction…a quirky, subversive, original wit and an imaginative linguistic fluency which must be interpreted as the consolidation of a new literary maturity |
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