Abstract

In Anne Enright's first book of short stories, The Portable Virgin, the author's ironic style discloses an interesting range of sadness and simplicity, of strange ordinariness and painful emotion and depicts characters who stand at an oblique angle to society in their everyday tragedies with so much realism, finesse and truth that the book generates the feeling of verbal confidence, endowed with feminine tenderness and compassion.

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