![]() ![]() Such unsavory mixing, however, is not only a thing of the past. Because, in those days, people used to be mixed up together in the most disgusting ways. When he holds his penis in the nighttime, it feels like her thin skin always damp, never sweating. ![]() She moved towards death and womanhood at the same pace, the nipples like a spreading bruise, the breasts growing, and failing to grow, over lungs hard with disease…. His own puberty going unnoticed …as her little breasts swelled under the nightdress. The room they grew up in was full of the wet rattle of her chest…. Early on, the narrator and main character, Veronica Hegarty, imagines Lamb Nugent, a friend of the family and long-thwarted suitor of her grandmother, masturbating over memories of his dying sister: The Gathering, title of the winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize, refers ostensibly to the assembly of a large family for the wake and funeral of one of its members, but we might also consider the book, the fourth novel by Irish writer Anne Enright, as a gathering of powerfully unpleasant images involving the superimposition of sex, death, and decay. ![]()
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