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The Wig My Father Wore
by: Anne Enright

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780802138323
ISBN: 0802138322
Label: Grove Press
Manufacturer: Grove Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: October 07, 2001
Publisher: Grove Press
Sales Rank: 720973
Studio: Grove Press

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The second novel to be published in America by widely acclaimed Irish author Anne Enright, The Wig My Father Wore is a spry, hilarious novel about parents, love, religion, and the absurdities of them all. Grace is a young Dubliner who works on a television show called Love Quiz. Her father is going benignly senile, but her life otherwise seems fairly solid. When Stephen arrives on her doorstep, however, Grace has no idea what she's in for. Stephen explains that 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.

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- Why Did I Buy This Book in the First Place?!
This book was awful! I did not find any humor in it. I found the writing style to be rather elementary. I use to write short stories in a similar style when I was nineteen and had jumped on the whole mock-drepression, no-real-reason-to-be-negative, wanna-be-anti-social grunge bandwagon. I just could not get into her "jaded character" writing style, having outgrown it myself. I didn't see the point of the story (if there was one). I couldn't make connections (if there were any to be made). It was very free-flow, almost stream of consciousness and not interesting in the least. I am sorry I bought it and stopped reading it halfway through when I finally realized that it would not get better. The only reason why I gave it one star is because I was forced to, I was required to give it a rating in order to be able to post my review.

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- Why did I buy this?
I am sure this is suppose to be a very eclectic novel but really I can't believe what a garbled mess this was. So why did I keep reading? It is sort of like cleaning up your plate. The story had some sort of plot but the telling made little or no sense whatsoever. Some people may find it very clever but I think it just a confusion.

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- If you prefer clear use of English, avoid this one.
I don't know what it is about today's writers; more and more the English language is being butchered through bad syntax, bizarre sentence structure and nonsensical wording. For all of those items, this book takes the grand prize.

Frankly, I couldn't figure out how this book ever got through an editorial process and have come to believe that it must not have been edited at all. You will have a hard time finding a single paragraph that meets the standards of a high school English teacher, let alone the normal standards of professional writing.

Although the author has a wonderful imagination and a good *idea* for a story, the writing standards presented here represent the triumph of illiteracy.

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- baldy
phernominal, the story was so fabulous. i also occasionaly wear my poppa's wig.

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