Winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize, Anne Enright is on this week’s Shelf Life. She tells us which book qualifies as the first satisfying satire on the Irish boom, gives us a long list of the parties in literature she would like to have attended and reveals which is the only book by Norman Mailer that wouldn’t make her run for the hills.
Her latest novel is The Forgotten Waltz and she will be appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Sunday 19th August at 18:30. www.edbookfest.co.uk
1) What are you reading at the moment?
Graham Greene, would you believe: A Burnt Out Case. Also A.M. Homes May We Be Forgiven, in proof, which promises to be wonderful. I have just finished Claire Kilroy’s The Devil I Know, which is the first satisfying piece of satire about the Irish boom (and greed in general).
2) As a child, what did you read under the covers?
Everything.
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