Voices, Visions & What We Choose to See
Over three decades, Anne Enright has observed the world — and now she presents a collection of essays weaving together her life, literature and the political pulse around us. Attention reveals her sharp gaze on identity, power, memory and the spaces where personal and public meet.
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Voices, Visions & What We Choose to See
Over three decades, Anne Enright has observed the world — and now she presents a collection of essays weaving together her life, literature and the political pulse around us. Attention reveals her sharp gaze on identity, power, memory and the spaces where personal and public meet.
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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 always been alert to the places where public and private meet, where individual lives are caught by, or alter, the sweep of history. These essays, collated from across Enright’s career, take us from Galway to Honduras, from personal self-examination to urgent political writing.
They delve into Enright’s own family history, and explore the free voices and controlled bodies of women in society and fiction. She offers new perspectives on writers including Alice Munro, Toni Morrison, James Joyce, Helen Garner and Angela Carter.
Attention brings Anne Enright’s wide-ranging cultural criticism, literary and autobiographical writing together for the first time. In Enright’s fiction, speech can transform, rupture, enliven and liberate — in these essays, she speaks to us directly. Electrifying, probing and exuberant, this is a defining collection from one of our most distinguished literary voices.
- 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 eight novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Other award include the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for The Forgotten Waltz, the Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award and Novel of the Year (which she has won twice), the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature and the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction. Most recently she won the 2024 Writers' Prize for Fiction and the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction.
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- ISBN
- 9781787335783
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape, (30 October 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 288
- Weight
- 353 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 154 x 22 mm
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