Flotsam and Jetsam (Övrig)
avAidan Higgins
ISBN: 9781564783165 - UTGIVEN: 2002-03-01Considered to be one of the best Irish writers of the twentieth century, Aidan Higgins has earned a reputation throughout Europe as an unusual and astringent prose stylist. This omnibus of selected short fiction is the perfect introduction to the talents of this Irish successor to James Joyce and Sa[...]
Langrishe, Go Down (Pocket)
avAidan Higgins
ISBN: 9781564783523 - UTGIVEN: 200407An eminently poetic book, Langrishe, Go Down (Higgins's first novel) traces the fall of the Langrishes--a once wealthy, highly respected Irish family--through the lives of their four daughters, especially the youngest, Imogen, whose love affair with a self-centered German scholar resonates throughou[...]
Scenes from a Receding Past (Övrig)
avAidan Higgins
ISBN: 9781564783875 - UTGIVEN: 2005-06-30Opening with a quote from Richard Brautigan -- "I've been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning" -- Scenes from a Receding Past constructs the adolescence and early adulthood of Dan Ruttle out of a variety of scenes and reminiscences abou[...]
Bornholm Night-Ferry (Häftad)
avAidan Higgins
ISBN: 9781564784155 - UTGIVEN: 200909For the five years of their adulterous love affair, Finn Fitzgerald and Elin Marstrander spend only 47 days and nights together. At each of their too few meetings--"in Spain or London, or on the tiny island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, which serves as their last refuge--"they try to conjure a real[...]
Blind Man's Bluff (Övrig)
avAidan Higgins
ISBN: 9781564787255 - UTGIVEN: 2012-09-11Perversely, but perhaps appropriately, Aidan Higgins -- one of the few contemporary writers worthy of comparison with Beckett and Joyce, now celebrating his 85th year -- has chosen to wait until his sight has nearly left him to assemble this collection of visual treats. A commonplace book of anecdot[...]
