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29 ratings, 2.76 average rating, 6 reviews
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published
2000
by Jolle Losfeld
binding
Unknown Binding, 196 pages
isbn
2844120636
(isbn13: 9782844120632)
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Read in April, 2005
recommends it for:
dreamers, surrealists
Has Grace had a breakdown? Why? Who or what is Stephen? Just some of the many questions this book invites readers to ask without ever answering....
Yet despite a lack of answers this book is more enticing than frustrating as the reader gets to know Grace/Grainne who works on a TV show in 1990s Dublin and struggles to come to terms with her own identity, what modern day Ireland means and her relationship to her family, guided by the angelic presence of her friend/housemate/lover/guardi...more
Yet despite a lack of answers this book is more enticing than frustrating as the reader gets to know Grace/Grainne who works on a TV show in 1990s Dublin and struggles to come to terms with her own identity, what modern day Ireland means and her relationship to her family, guided by the angelic presence of her friend/housemate/lover/guardi...more
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I found this book after I read The Gathering by the same author. This book is in the magical realism realm (an angel is one of the characters) but it's also earthy and gutsy as well. An interesting read.
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Read in September, 2008
All I can say is Blech!!! Really abstract and modernist-feeling, a la Gertrude Stein or something.
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Read in May, 2008
Enright's unique voice engages the imagination and her insight into character earns my admiration.
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it was just awful...the only book I was never able to finish....
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