The forgotten waltz
During a peaceful snowfall in a suburb in Dublin, a woman remembers her younger days spent with her lover in various hotel rooms as she awaits the arrival of his 12-year-old daughter.
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Married women > Fiction. Adultery > Fiction. Dublin (Ireland) > Fiction. |
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Psychological fiction. Love stories. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 0771030746
- ISBN: 9780771030741
- Physical Description 229 pages
- Publisher Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, [2011]
- Copyright ©2011
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General Note: | Winner of the 2012 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 29.99 |
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The Forgotten Waltz
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Summary
The Forgotten Waltz
The Forgotten Waltz is a memory of desire: a recollection of the bewildering speed of attraction, the irreparable slip into longing, that reads with breathtaking immediacy. In Terenure, a pleasant suburb of Dublin, in the winter of 2009, it has snowed. A woman recalls the trail of lust and happenstance that brought her to fall for "the love of her life." As the city outside comes to a halt, she remembers the days of their affair in one hotel room or another: long afternoons made blank by bliss and denial. Now, as the silent streets and the stillness and vertigo of the falling snow make the day luminous and full of possibility, she awaits the arrival on her doorstep of his fragile, twelve-year-old daughter, Evie. In The Forgotten Waltz , Enright is at the height of her powers. This is Anne Enright's tour de force, a novel of intelligence, passion, and real distinction.