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A review by stevenjpitt
The Green Road by Anne Enright
5.0
Enright was able to explore the beauty and humanity within a collection of broken souls, as well as the substance holding a fragmented family together.
Favourite Lines:
• “She looked at her son, she looked him straight in the eye, and for a moment, Emmet felt himself to be known. Just a glimmer and then it was gone.”
• “He met Dan’s eyes with the easy lack of interest he had learned all his life to show.”
• “For an utterly pretentious boy, he was very set against pretension. Much fuss to make things simple. That was his style.”
• “She had lost her son to the hunger of others. She had lost her son to death itself. Because that is where your sons go- they follow their fathers into the valley of the dead, like they are going off to war.”
Favourite Lines:
• “She looked at her son, she looked him straight in the eye, and for a moment, Emmet felt himself to be known. Just a glimmer and then it was gone.”
• “He met Dan’s eyes with the easy lack of interest he had learned all his life to show.”
• “For an utterly pretentious boy, he was very set against pretension. Much fuss to make things simple. That was his style.”
• “She had lost her son to the hunger of others. She had lost her son to death itself. Because that is where your sons go- they follow their fathers into the valley of the dead, like they are going off to war.”