9781324005629-1324005629-Actress: A Novel

Actress: A Novel

ISBN-13: 9781324005629
ISBN-10: 1324005629
Edition: First Edition
Author: Anne Enright
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover 272 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781324005629
ISBN-10: 1324005629
Edition: First Edition
Author: Anne Enright
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover 272 pages

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Actress: A Novel (ISBN-13: 9781324005629 and ISBN-10: 1324005629), written by authors Anne Enright, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2020. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Actress: A Novel (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.42.

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A brilliant and moving novel about celebrity, sexual power, and a daughter’s search to understand her mother’s hidden truths.

Katherine O’Dell is an Irish theater legend. As her daughter, Norah, retraces her mother’s celebrated career and bohemian life, she delves into long-kept secrets, both her mother’s and her own. Katherine began her career on Ireland’s bus-and-truck circuit before making it to London’s West End, Broadway, and finally Hollywood. Every moment of her life is a performance, with young Norah standing in the wings. But the mother-daughter romance cannot survive Katherine’s past or the world’s damage. With age, alcohol, and dimming stardom, Katherine’s grip on reality grows fitful. Fueled by a proud and long-simmering rage, she commits a bizarre crime.

As Norah’s role gradually changes to Katherine’s protector, caregiver, and finally legacy-keeper, she revisits her mother’s life of fiercely kept secrets; and Norah reveals in turn the secrets of her own sexual and emotional coming-of-age story. Her narrative is shaped by three braided searches―for her father’s identity; for her mother’s motive in donning a Chanel suit one morning and shooting a TV producer in the foot; and her own search for a husband, family, and work she loves.

Bringing to life two generations of women with difficult sexual histories, both assaulted and silenced, both finding―or failing to find―their powers of recovery, Actress touches a raw and timely nerve. With virtuosic storytelling and in prose at turns lyrical and knife-sharp, Enright takes readers to the heart of the maddening yet tender love that binds a mother and daughter.

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