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Book SynopsisLonglisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction
One of
Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020
“A critique, a confession, a love letter—and another brilliant novel from Anne Enright.” —Ron Charles,
Washington PostTrade Review"Intoxicating.… Even while laughing at Enright’s wicked mockery, I was moved by the tenderness of her evocation of difficult love." -- Mary Gordon - New York Times
"Gorgeously written fiction.… Enright’s unflinching portrait… is scrupulously developed and painfully moving." -- Wendy Smith - Boston Globe
"There is something that seems effortless about Ms. Enright’s writing—an illusion, of course, but one brilliantly sustained." -- Sam Sacks - Wall Street Journal
"Captivating." -- Sara Resnick - The New Yorker
"[A] skillfully crafted, emotionally charged novel from an expert practitioner.… Enright has given us another first-rate performance." -- Malcolm Forbes - National
"A perfect jewel of a book, a dark emerald set in the Irish laureate’s fictional tiara, alongside her Man Booker Prize winner
The Gathering (2007) and
The Green Road (2015). Its brilliance is complex and multifaceted, but completely lucid.…
Actress is a deeply humane, often darkly funny novel about the exercise of power over sexually attractive women. The grim subject matter is illuminated by Enright’s acute sensitivity to language.… Enright proves, once again, her genius." -- Ruth Scurr - Spectator
"Out in force. Anne Enright, the unofficial rock star of literary fiction, cements her stardom with
Actress." -- Niamh Donnelly - Irish Times
"In Katherine O’Dell, her fictional fallen star of stage and screen… Enright has created a heroine as irresistible to the reader as to her audiences.… She has become a byword for contemporary Irish literary fiction at its finest." -- Lisa Allardice - Guardian
"
Actress absolutely enthralled me.… [An] immersive, masterful novel." -- Anya Meyerowitz - Red magazine
"May I recommend
Actress by Anne Enright. Her writing is always pitch perfect, but this is truly exquisite. If there is such a thing as the perfect novel, this is it." -- Nigella Lawson
