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Start giftingThe Green Road
Length
9 hours 45 minutes
Language
English
Narrators
Alana Kerr Collins, Lloyd James & Gerard Doyle
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Learn moreFrom internationally acclaimed, Man Booker Prize–winning author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland’s Atlantic coast. The Green Road is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and selfishness—a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we strive to fill them.
Spanning thirty years, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart. As they grow up, Rosaleen’s four children leave the west of Ireland for lives they could have never imagined in Dublin, New York, and Mali, West Africa. In her early old age their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she’s decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought and sold.
A profoundly moving work about a family’s desperate attempt to recover the relationships they’ve lost and forge the ones they never had, The Green Road is Enright’s most mature, accomplished, and unforgettable novel to date.
Anne Enright is the author of two volumes of stories and several novels, including The Forgotten Waltz and The Gathering, which won the Man Booker Prize.
Alana Kerr Collins is a Meisner-trained actress, a classically trained soprano, and a Sesame Workshop trained puppeteer who received her bachelor's degree in drama and English from Trinity College in Dublin. The recipient of an Audie Award for her work on Angela Hunt’s Risen, she has recorded over fifty audiobook titles. Born and raised in Belfast, Ireland, she currently resides in Los Angeles.
Sean Pratt (AEA/SAG/AFTRA) has been a working actor for over thirty years. Sean was a company member at the Pearl Theatre, an Off-Broadway classical repertory theater, and has also performed at numerous regional theaters around the country. He has appeared in major films, including Gods and Generals, Tuck Everlasting, and Iron Jawed Angels, and has hosted HGTV's Old Homes Restored and held supporting roles on the hit television shows Homicide, The District, and America's Most Wanted. An eight-time AudioFile Earphones Award winner, Sean has narrated for twenty years and has recorded over 850 books in just about every genre. He also teaches classes on and writes articles about the business of the Biz.
Gerard Doyle reads everything from adult, young adult, and children's books to literary fiction, mysteries, humor, adventure, and fantasy. He has won countless AudioFile Earphones Awards and was named a Best Voice in Young Adult Fiction in 2008. His audiobook credits include the bestselling Inheritance series (Eragon, Eldest, and Brisinger), How to Train Your Dragon, The Looking Glass Wars, Clubland, And Thereby Hangs a Tale, and Risk Worth Taking. His career in British repertory theatre includes many productions, most notably The Crucible, The Tempest, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Fiddler on the Roof. In America, he has appeared in Broadway in The Weir and on television in New York Undercover and Law & Order. Born of Irish parents and raised and educated in England, Gerard has taught drama at Ross School for the past several years.
Reviews
“An exquisitely drawn case for the possibility of growth, love, and transformation at any age.”
“A master of emotional excavation…shows us the beauty even in life’s harsh terrain.”
“A book of brawny prose sheathed in cool intelligence.”
“Enright masterfully reminds us of the weight of history and family.”
“An impressive novel that bounces its readers through some fairly rocky terrain… Enright writes with authority and confidence not just about her native Ireland but about the AIDS-stricken New York in which Dan is making his way and the poverty-stricken Mali.”
“Arich, capacious story, buoyed by tender humor, something like Anne Tyler with a brogue.”
“Enright’s razor-sharp writing turns every ordinary detail into a weapon, to create a story that cuts right to the bone.”
“Alana Kerr uses a light Irish accent to narrate the chapters about the widowed mother and her daughters…Soft-spoken Lloyd James and the gruffer Gerard Doyle narrate the sections about the brothers, one coming to terms with his sexuality and the other an aid worker in Africa.”
“Flawless…This novel is a vibrant family portrait, both pitiless and compassionate, witty and stark.”
“Enright trails the Madigans over three decades, illuminating their trials and triumphs as reflective of not only their distinctive personalities and personal interests but also Irish society moving into the modern era of contraception, economic boom and bust, and open homosexuality.”
“This is prime Enright territory, the fertile soil of home and history, cash and clan…allowing Enright plenty of space to convey her brilliant ear for dialogue, her soft wit, and piercing, poetic sense of life’s larger abstractions.”
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