What Are You Like
  • Published: 1 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409020943
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

What Are You Like

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An astonishing novel of love, family and identity, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering, reissued in a beautiful new series style

'What is a really good novel like? This for a start' The Times

When Maria turns twenty, she falls in love. She is in the wrong town, and he is the wrong sort of man. Going through his things, she finds a photo of herself when she was twelve years old. She has the same smile, but she is wearing the wrong clothes: she is the same, only different.

Anne Enright's astonishing novel moves between Dublin, New York and London, following the lives of the real Maria and the girl in the picture. Stepping through the mirror to tell the story of the two women, both haunted by their missing selves, What Are You Like? is an exquisitely written disquisition on families and identity. Threading together the lives of two young women, it confirms Anne Enright as not only the most original Irish writer of her generation, but also as one of the finest, funniest, and most affecting.
  • Published: 1 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409020943
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272
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About the author

Anne Enright

Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday’s Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and six novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and The Green Road, which was the Bord Gáis Energy Novel of the Year and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, and in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature.

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Babies
The Green Road
The Forgotten Waltz
Yesterday's Weather
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Praise for What Are You Like

This book is so sad that you want to laugh out loud. It deals with areas of experience and patterns of living that no one else has noticed

Colm Tóibín

Hauntingly told

Sunday Times

Anne Enright is a very original writer - a spry surrealist who challenges the world with extraordinary, lancing sentences...so intelligent and so controlled

James Wood, Guardian

'Anne Enright is a very original writer - a spry surrealist who challenges the world with extraordinary, lancing sentences...so intelligent and so controlled'

James Wood, Guardian

'Hauntingly told'

Sunday Times
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