· "It is difficult to believe that When All Is Said is a first novel, as Anne Griffin displays such an assured hand at locating and maintaining the voice of our lead character, Maurice Hannigan. An old widower, Hannigan picks a night at the local pub and toasts the five people who influenced his life in the most important ways, and, in the process, gives an oral first person history of his own life—both . Eighty-four-year-old Maurice Hannigan, the gruff, unsparing narrator of Dublin-born writer Anne Griffin’s satisfying first novel, When All Is Said, is no exception. Without informing his son, Maurice has sold his home and farm, given away his dog and told everyone he is retiring to a nursing home. First, though, is a nightlong stop at the well-appointed bar of the Rainsford House Hotel, where Maurice will raise a . This is Anne Griffin’s debut novel WHEN ALL IS SAID. A man looks back at his life through a series of toasts that he makes to five different people who have had an impact on his life. As he reflects on his long life, growing up in a small Irish town, about having lost his true love, about his childhood, and the success that he has achieved but not necessarily that which he is proud of/5(K).
Anne Griffin is an Irish author, best known for her award-winning short stories. In she published her first novel, When All Is Said. Griffin was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland. She received her B.A. from University College Dublin (UCD). "When All Is Said catches a world in a moment. Maurice Hannigan is a wonderful invention, whose bitter-sweet meditations will stay long in the reader's mind. Anne Griffin has fashioned a rare jewel." ―John Banville, New York Times bestselling author of Time Pieces and Man Booker Prize award-winning author of The Sea. The Irish have a reputation, deserved or not, for being storytellers, drinkers and fighters, not necessarily in that order. Eighty-four-year-old Maurice Hannigan, the gruff, unsparing narrator of Dublin-born writer Anne Griffin's satisfying first novel, When All Is Said, is no exception. Without informing his son, Maurice has sold his home and farm, given away his dog and told everyone he is.
Eighty-four-year-old Maurice Hannigan, the gruff, unsparing narrator of Dublin-born writer Anne Griffin’s satisfying first novel, When All Is Said, is no exception. Without informing his son, Maurice has sold his home and farm, given away his dog and told everyone he is retiring to a nursing home. First, though, is a nightlong stop at the well-appointed bar of the Rainsford House Hotel, where Maurice will raise a glass five times to five different people, and remember, as he says, “All. "It is difficult to believe that When All Is Said is a first novel, as Anne Griffin displays such an assured hand at locating and maintaining the voice of our lead character, Maurice Hannigan. An old widower, Hannigan picks a night at the local pub and toasts the five people who influenced his life in the most important ways, and, in the process, gives an oral first person history of his own life—both the truthful and the delusional. This is Anne Griffin’s debut novel WHEN ALL IS SAID. A man looks back at his life through a series of toasts that he makes to five different people who have had an impact on his life. As he reflects on his long life, growing up in a small Irish town, about having lost his true love, about his childhood, and the success that he has achieved but not necessarily that which he is proud of.
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