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The Wig My Father Wore
Anne Enright
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Description for The Wig My Father Wore
paperback. A tale of sex, death and reproduction, by the author of "The Portable Virgin". When Stephen arrives on her doorstep and asks for a cup of tea, Grace's life is transfigured. He committed suicide in 1934, but now, nostalgically, he spends his nights hanging by the neck in Grace's shower. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 166.
'It was a tough, wiry wig with plenty of personality. It rode around on his head like an animal. It was a vigorous brown. I was very fond of it as a child. I thought that it liked me back.'
Anne Enright's extraordinary first novel is narrated by Grace, a TV producer, whose life is transfigured when she answers the door to a fully-fledged angel. Stephen was a bridge-builder in Canada before he killed himself, but now that he has come to stay with Grace he spends the night hanging by the neck in her shower, to help ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780749397159
SKU
V9780749397159
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-63
About 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 seven 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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Wig My Father Wore
One of our greatest living novelists
The Times
Anne Enright is an eloquent writer - dazzlingly funny
Penelope Fitzgerald Enright [has a] white-knuckle grip on language. A dazzling circus of words
Guardian
Reckless intelligence, savage humour, slow revelation, no consolation: Anne Enright's fiction is jet dark - but how it glitters
New York Times ... Read more
The Times
Anne Enright is an eloquent writer - dazzlingly funny
Penelope Fitzgerald Enright [has a] white-knuckle grip on language. A dazzling circus of words
Guardian
Reckless intelligence, savage humour, slow revelation, no consolation: Anne Enright's fiction is jet dark - but how it glitters
New York Times ... Read more