This according to the narrator of Actress, Katherine’s successful novelist daughter, Norah FitzMaurice. a great piece of anguish, madness and sorrow.” She was also a great fake. In between those years, she established herself as an artist who was about “sincerity, courage, self-sacrifice.” She “had the ability to be over the top, just by standing still.” She was also a “great Irish disaster. The legendary star of stage and screen-from Dublin to London to Hollywood-steps into the spotlight at age ten (playing a crocus), is finished at forty five, and dead at fifty eight. The actress who is the subject of this very Anglo-Irish novel is Katherine O’Dell. In this case, Enright takes some time to reveal who the “you” is at the same time that the reader gains knowledge about the subject and the first person narrator gains self-awareness as the story develops.
Man Booker prize-winner ( The Gathering) Anne Enright’s beguiling fictional biographical memoir, Actress, reads like an extended prose version of a Robert Browning dramatic monologue.Īddressed by a first person speaker to an unidentified “you,” the Browning version, usually delivered with an edge of clueless irony about a subject and a situation, slowly reveals as much about the speaker as it does about the person spoken about. Norton, 391 pages) By Robert Allen Papinchak
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