The Wig My Father Wore
$29.87
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 January 1996
Summary
Man Booker winner Anne Enright’s moving and darkly funny debut novel of sex, death and reproduction.
Grace is 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. She falls in love, moving steadily from the spiritual to the anatomical.
Meanwhile, as her …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780749397159 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0749397152 |
| Author: | Anne Enright |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 1996 |
| Weight: | 163g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 14mm |
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One of our greatest living novelists * The Times *Anne Enright is an eloquent writer - dazzlingly funny – Penelope FitzgeraldEnright [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 Book Review *
About The Author
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 eight novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Other awards include the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for The Forgotten Waltz, the Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award and Novel of the Year (which she has won twice), the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature and the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction. Most recently she won the 2024 Writers’ Prize for Fiction and the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction.
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