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Indlæser... The Wig My Father Wore (1995)af Anne Enright
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. ? Don't ask me what this book was about. I have no idea, really, but it's something like this: A horny angel moves in with a young woman who works for a TV show similar to The Dating Game. He keeps dying again. Her father has always worn a ratty wig. He has Alzheimer's. Pretty soon all the hair falls off the woman's body, and when the angel touches her breast, her nipple disappears. She worries that he will touch her navel and take it away, too. She likes her navel. The angel becomes a contestant on the game show and gets blown into the airways. The end. Either the author was trying to be weird for the sake of being weird, or she thought she was writing something smart and avant garde. Whatever. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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'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 thinders to a conclusion. No library descriptions found. |
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