Attention: Writing on Life, Art and The World by Anne Enright

Attention: Writing on Life, Art and The World by Anne EnrightA timely, moving, and piercingly intelligent essay collection from one of our finest contemporary writers For thirty years Anne Enright has been paying attention casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature and her own life, and gifting us with her precise insights. Anne Enright has aways been alert to the places where public and private meet, where individual lives are caught by, or alter, the sweep of history. These essays,

Year by year

A sweeping historical drama from the author of the bestselling The Bookshop of the Broken HeartedWorld War II is over and Hiroshima lies in a heap of poisoned rubble when young Quaker Wesley Cunningham returns home to Almond Tree

with his left eyelid (the only surviving muscle after a massive stroke) dictated a remarkable book about his experiences locked inside his body

And when the only person who knows her identity arrives in Rome

Rowdy bull rider

He reveals the outlines of a new geo-economic order and explains in persuasive

completely unpredictable novel

individualism

no one more so than the most celebrated novelist of the day

zoom in and out of varying perspectives

she warned that Dutton saying no to the Voice referendum would 'win the applause of the Sky After Dark sirens

and be inspired by his incredible journey of triumph against all odds