Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Wig My Father Wore

The Wig My Father Wore

Enright, Anne

Paperback

Literary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0802138322
ISBN13: 9780802138323
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: Sep 6 2001
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

The second novel to be published in America by the widely acclaimed Booker Prize-winning Irish author, a hilarious novel about parents, love, religion, and the absurdities of all of them.

Grace is a young Dubliner who works on a television show called the Love Quiz. Her father is going benignly senile and her life is fairly solid. When Stephen arrives on her doorstep, however, Grace has no idea what she's in for. Stephen explains he is an angel, a former bridge builder who committed suicide in 1934. He has been sent back to earth (as all suicides are) to guide lost souls. Grace does not take this personally at first, but eventually she has to face the idea that things are not so easy, and that her greatest intimacy is with this supernatural creature. As Grace begins to take stock of her life and the prospect of caring enough about something to fight for it, The Wig My Father Wore takes us on a moving, surreal romp through Catholicism, parents, and the reclamation of love from the twin modern evils of cynicism and the detritus of pop culture.

Also in

Literary Fiction

View All