{"product_id":"actress-a-novel-by-anne-enright","title":"Actress by Anne Enright (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the Wall Street Journal's 10 Best Books of 2020\u003cbr\u003eOne of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020\u003cbr\u003eA Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction in 2020\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA brilliant and moving novel about celebrity, sexual power, and a daughter’s search to understand her mother’s hidden truths.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatherine O’Dell is an Irish theater legend. As her daughter, Norah, retraces her mother’s celebrated career and bohemian life, she delves into long-kept secrets, both her mother’s and her own. Katherine began her career on Ireland’s bus-and-truck circuit before making it to London’s West End, Broadway, and finally Hollywood. Every moment of her life is a performance, with young Norah standing in the wings. But the mother-daughter romance cannot survive Katherine’s past or the world’s damage. With age, alcohol, and dimming stardom, Katherine’s grip on reality grows fitful. Fueled by a proud and long-simmering rage, she commits a bizarre crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Norah’s role gradually changes to Katherine’s protector, caregiver, and finally legacy-keeper, she revisits her mother’s life of fiercely kept secrets; and Norah reveals in turn the secrets of her own sexual and emotional coming-of-age story. Her narrative is shaped by three braided searches―for her father’s identity; for her mother’s motive in donning a Chanel suit one morning and shooting a TV producer in the foot; and her own search for a husband, family, and work she loves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing to life two generations of women with difficult sexual histories, both assaulted and silenced, both finding―or failing to find―their powers of recovery, Actress touches a raw and timely nerve. With virtuosic storytelling and in prose at turns lyrical and knife-sharp, Enright takes readers to the heart of the maddening yet tender love that binds a mother and daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Next Chapter Books \u0026 Bookmobile","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44488965324937,"sku":"SQ0078670","price":13.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/6087\/8729\/files\/Actress_-_Front_Cover.jpg?v=1754614282","url":"https:\/\/www.nextchapterbookmobile.com\/products\/actress-a-novel-by-anne-enright","provider":"Next Chapter Books \u0026 Bookmobile","version":"1.0","type":"link"}