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The Wig My Father Wore

by Anne Enright
RM36.60 MYR
The Wig My Father Wore
The Wig My Father Wore

Angelic visitations, love, and familial eccentricity entwined.

Imagine an angel knocking on your door, not just in religious texts, but in your real, unassuming life. That's the experience Grace has in "The Wig My Father Wore," a novel that blends the divine with the domestic in unexpected ways. Enright's narrative skillfully navigates the complexities of love, both human and celestial, and family relationships with wit and depth. If you're drawn to stories where the lines between madness and sanity blur, this may be a memorable read for you.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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The Wig My Father Wore

by Anne Enright
RM36.60 MYR
ISBN: 9780749397159
Authors: Anne Enright
Publisher: Minerva
Date of Publication: 1996-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Fantasy, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Magical Realism
Goodreads rating: 3.07
(rated by 334 readers)

Description

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 himself think. Needless to say, she falls in love, moving steadily from the spiritual to the anatomical. Meanwhile, as her TV day job on the 'Love Quiz' begins to spiral out of control, on the other side of her life is her father, benign, bewigged and stricken by a stroke - apparently mad but probably the sanest person in her life. As the three worlds meet and merge in a forest of contradictions, we watch Grace take the pacific path from cynicism to innocence, as all around her the novel thunders to a conclusion.
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Angelic visitations, love, and familial eccentricity entwined.

Imagine an angel knocking on your door, not just in religious texts, but in your real, unassuming life. That's the experience Grace has in "The Wig My Father Wore," a novel that blends the divine with the domestic in unexpected ways. Enright's narrative skillfully navigates the complexities of love, both human and celestial, and family relationships with wit and depth. If you're drawn to stories where the lines between madness and sanity blur, this may be a memorable read for you.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.