Advantages: beautifully written, has staying power Disadvantages: grim, not much happens, unlikeable narrator
Summary: beautifully written internal-monologue tale of bodily anguish
It's not difficult to see why AnneEnright's "The Gathering" has been short-listed (and eventually, selected) for that ultimate literary fiction accolade, the Man Booker prize. If our (or the jurors') idea of the the peaks of literary novel is, almost unavoidably, defined by the Great Moderns, if it's all of Joyce, Woolf and Lawrence; Proust and Kafka; then "The Gathering" had to be recognised because it's steeped in that tradition.
Veronica Hegarty, one of the twelve Hegarty siblings is bringing her brother Liam home to bury. He walked to his death in the Brighton sea, his brain muddled by drink, his pockets filled with stones. The gathering of the title refers to the family coming to the funeral in Dublin, but most of the book consists of Veronica ...
Advantages: Well written, good characterisation, interesting plot Disadvantages: None of me
to frustrate Jason's attempts to spend regular quality time with his Jake and Leah.
I really hope I never have the misfortune to meet anyone like Kat in real life.
After reading this book, I can understand, to a certain extent anyway, the desperate plight of fathers, who through no fault of their own, find themselves deprived of their children by both their ex-partner and the authorities. It really did make me question the justice of the law, which really does seem to favour the mother, regardless of the circumstances. (Please note, I do understand that in many, many cases that this has to be the case in order to protect the best interests and safe-being of the children (and often that of their mother too))
Widdecombe writes very well, her characterisation development is excellent and the book flows very ...
Advantages: Well written and rivetting Disadvantages: None
THE DISTANT LAND OF MYFATHER
BO CALDWELL
This is Bo Caldwell's first novel; published in 2001 it is the story of a young girl (and later woman) growing up in pre-WW2 Shanghai (and later, Los Angeles) and her relationship with her father,
Bo Caldwell has said that she based the story on the life of an uncle. Her grandparents, too, were missionaries in China at the beginning of the 20th century.
The novel begins after the death of Joseph Schoene, when his daughter Anna discovers his painstakingly kept journals.
We then go back to 1937, and an American family who live in Hungjao, a western suburb of Shanghai.
Joseph Schoene, the son of missionaries in Shantung province, his wife Genevieve and daughter Anna (who narrates the book) live in great luxury due to the money Joseph has made in his import ...
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Type
Fiction
Genre
Modern Fiction
Title
The Wig My Father Wore
Author
Anne Enright
ISBN
0224040553; 0749397152; 0802138322
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The life of Grace, a TV producer, is transformed when she answers the door to a fully-fledged angel. She promptly falls in love, moving from the spiritual to the anatomical. Meanwhile her TV job spirals out of control, and her bewigged, stroke-stricken father becomes the sanest person she knows.
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