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The Forgotten Waltz: A Novel

By Anne Enright
The Forgotten Waltz: A Novel by Anne Enright digital book - Fable

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Winner of the 2012 Andrew Carnegie Award for Excellence in Fiction

"A tour de force."—Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review

"A new, unapologetic kind of adultery novel. Narrated by the proverbial other woman—Gina Moynihan, a sharp, sexy, darkly funny thirtysomething IT worker—The Forgotten Waltz charts an extramarital affair from first encounter to arranged, settled, everyday domesticity…This novel’s beauty lies in Enright’s spare, poetic, off-kilter prose—at once heartbreaking and subversively funny. It’s built of starling little surprises and one fresh sentence after another. Enright captures the heady eroticism of an extramarital affair and the incendiary egomania that accompanies secret passion: For all their utter ordinariness, Sean and Gina feel like the greatest lovers who’ve ever lived." —Elle

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“Okay, first 1 star review of 2024. I hated this book. I hated that I wanted to DNF and I didn’t. I hate the storyline. I hate Gina-the main character. I hate that I don’t know if it’s reality that I couldn’t even find a modicum of empathy or understanding for any of the shit that happened in this book. This was a level of entitled nonsense that just didn’t translate or resonate. It’s cool that the main character is not likeable; I love unlikeable women. It’s just that she’s not logical or interesting that grinds my gears. I really loved Anne Enright’s essay in https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58860197.This_Woman_s_Work_Essays_on_Music , but this novel makes me want to never read any of her fiction again— and honestly, I don’t think that I ever will. How did I get here… this book is recommended in the https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58930969.52_Award_Winning_Titles_Every_Book_Lover_Should_Read_A_One_Year_Journal_and_Recommended_Reading_List_from_the_American_Library_Association______52_Books_Every_Book_Lover_Should_Read_ . This was Week 15: April 10th. Real talks, that book is getting tossed too. More thoughts on my reading experience with this book https://www.tumblr.com/thingsreadinthedark/749289804009766912/a-waste-this-was-week-15-in-the-book-52”

About Anne Enright

Anne Enright is author of seven novels, most recently Actress. She has been awarded the Man Booker Prize, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Irish Book Awards. She lives in Dublin.

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