Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet
Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her.
Restless and wryly self-assured, at twenty-two Nell leaves her
mother Carmel’s orderly home to find her own voice as a writer
(mostly online, ghost-blogging for an influencer) and to live a
poetical life. As she chases obsessive love, damage, and
transcendence, in Dublin and beyond, her grandfather’s poetry
seems to guide her home. Nell’s mother, Carmel McDaragh, knows
the magic of her Daddo’s poetry too well—the kind of magic that
makes women in their nighties slip outside for a kiss and then
elope, as her mother Terry had done. In his poems to Carmel, Phil
envisions his daughter as a bright-eyed wren ascending in escape
from his hand. But it is Phil who departs, abandoning his wife and
two young daughters. Carmel struggles to reconcile “the poet”
with the father whose desertion scars her life, along with that of
her fiercely dutiful sister and their gentle, cancer-ridden mother.
To distance herself from this betrayal, Carmel turns inward,
raising Nell, her daughter, and one trusted love, alone. The Wren,
the Wren brings to life three generations of McDaragh women who
must contend with inheritances—of poetic wonder and of
abandonment by a man who is lauded in public and carelessly selfish
at home. Their other, stronger inheritance is a sustaining love
that is “more than a strand of DNA, but a rope thrown from the
past, a fat twisted rope, full of blood.” In sharp prose studded
with crystalline poetry, Anne Enright masterfully braids a family
story of longing, betrayal, and hope.
General
| Imprint: |
W W Norton & Co Inc
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
September 2023 |
| Authors: |
Anne Enright
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
288 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-324-00568-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-324-00568-8 |
| Barcode: |
9781324005681 |
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