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nancyflanagan 's review for:
The Green Road
by Anne Enright
Five star writing. Five star character development, each of Rosaleen's children distinctly drawn and deftly illustrated. Five stars for the dialogue -- you know a lot about major and even minor characters by their casual remarks and internal monologues.
And--a unique structure, bouncing forward a decade or a few years, to catch us up on major events and shifts without tedium or endless backstory. In fact, there is no saga, and unlike the proclamation on the book jacket, no sweep. It's a series of vignettes and scenes, wry and maddening and depressing , humorous and tragic.
Perhaps the book tries to accomplish too much without enough weight, but it left me feeling hungry to read more of Enright's work.
And--a unique structure, bouncing forward a decade or a few years, to catch us up on major events and shifts without tedium or endless backstory. In fact, there is no saga, and unlike the proclamation on the book jacket, no sweep. It's a series of vignettes and scenes, wry and maddening and depressing , humorous and tragic.
Perhaps the book tries to accomplish too much without enough weight, but it left me feeling hungry to read more of Enright's work.