Read advance reader review of Actress by Anne Enright, page 4 of 4

Name: Actress
Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Author: Anne Enright

Actress

Page 4 of 4

There are currently 23 member reviews
for Actress

Nancy H. (Lisle, IL)

Celebrity Fatigue
Haven't we heard this story before? This book is a barely fictionalized amalgamation of several tell-all Hollywood memoirs, written by embittered daughters about their movie star mothers. It was never a pretty story, and the reader needs a persuasive argument to travel down that road again. This story rambles and whines, without ever justifying the trouble it takes to travel its dull and meandering paths.

Beth B. (New Wilmington, PA)

Not "Marvellous"
Anne Enright's novel, Actress, sparked my interest in the first pages, but, sadly that first impression was not sustained. The two main characters are mother, actress Katherine, and daughter, Norah. Memories concerning their relationship and circle of friends rambled all over creation. Katherine's favorite word, marvelous, definitely can not be used to describe this book. I could not recommend it.

The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern
by Lynda Cohen Loigman

Lynda Cohen Loigman's delightful novel The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern opens in 1987. The titular ...
Small Rain
by Garth Greenwell

At the beginning of Garth Greenwell's novel Small Rain, the protagonist, an unnamed poet in his ...
Daughters of Shandong
by Eve J. Chung

Daughters of Shandong is the debut novel of Eve J. Chung, a human rights lawyer living in New York. ...
The Women
by Kristin Hannah

Kristin Hannah's latest historical epic, The Women, is a story of how a war shaped a generation ...