One Page: Actress
With Anne Enright
This event is presented by One Page: Canada’s Virtual Literary Series.?
Anne Enright writes so well that she just might ruin you for anyone else. . . . Stripped raw of any sentimentality, the result is a critique, a confession, a love letter—and another brilliant novel.
In Anne Enright’s seventh novel, Actress, the Irish writer explores the creation and destruction of celebrity in the character of Katherine O’Dell as told through the eyes of her daughter, Norah. Along the way, Enright traces the tragic legacy that Katherine’s celebrity leaves when she dies young and the unique world that Norah grows up in with a mother whose pain ultimately pushes her into madness.
It’s one part A Star is Born with the portrayal of fame on an individual life trajectory and the rise and fall; and it’s one part Joy Luck Club with its complex and contradictory view of the bonds between mothers and daughters.
Anne Enright talks about Actress with the editor of Canadian Notes & Queries, Emily Donaldson, and the complex relationship that binds us to and cuts us off from our childhood heroes as well as to the pull of celebrity and its potential for destruction.
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Register in advance and tune in LIVE on October 15 from 12-1 pm EDT on the One Page Crowdcast channel.
