Dog Days

Higgins, Aidan

Biographies & Memoirs

Vintage

Donkey's Years and Dog Days were the first two volumes of these remarkable memoirs, of which The Whole Hog now completes the Higgins Bestiary. This spirited and quirky penman has always set himself apart form the general grind of Irish writing and its set themes, to run along the line of the exposed nerve-system.No other Irish writer has been so obsessed with the terrain inconnu of lost or thwarted love as this odd-man-out. From salad love with Molly Cushen, to Philippa Phillips in the dunes, to a young American wife in Spain at the time of the Bay of Pigs, or a divorce in Copenhagen, a tax inspectress in London, the Jacaranda Street tease in Johannesburg, the mirth is barely contained

The Whole Hog

<p>... the whole book... gave me the furtive feeling of reading private letters to which I'd been given unwarranted access' OBSERVER. - Elin and Finn are lovers. She is a poet, from Copenhagen - he is Irish and a writer. They both have families of their own. But after meeting on a holiday they are instantly attracted to each other and begin a thrillingly intense and passionate affair - one which is fuelled more by their letters and silences than by their actual meetings, which fill only 47 days in a relationship lasting 5 years. - BORNHOLM NIGHT-FERRY is the powerful record of the thoughts, suspicions and longings which compound their struggle to keep their relationship alive. '... as a demonstration of the language of love (and the nature of love), of two people tiring and inspiring themselves and each other by their intense monologuing. - BORNHOLM NIGHT-FERRY is an inspired piece of writing' THE SUNDAY TIMES</p>

Bornholm Night Ferry (Abacus Books)

Literature & Fiction

Abacus,1985

Donkeys Years

RANDOM HOUSE UK

This volume completes the Higgins Bestiary. From salad love with Molly Cushen to a young American wife in Spain and the Jacaranda Street tease in Johannesburg, Higgins is obsessed with the terrain of lost or thwarted love.

Aidan Higgins's great novel has long been unavailable, and is here reissued in a new and revised edition. "Balcony of Europe" tells the story of a young Jewish wife from San Francisco and a middle-aged Irish painter who meet in a village on the coast of Spain, beginning an affair during the coldest European winter in two hundred years--all the while surrounded by a cast of characters as bizarre and hilarious as they are, finally, touching. Lyrical and humorous, heartbreaking and hopeful, "Balcony of Europe "is Aidan Higgins's crowning achievement.

Balcony of Europe

Literary

DELACORTE PRESS

British & Irish

Riverrun Pr

An 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 throughout the book. Their relationship, told in lush, erotic, and occasionally melancholic prose, comes to represent not only the invasion and decline of this insular family, but the decline of Ireland and Western Europe as a whole in the years preceding World War II. In the tradition of great Irish writing, Higgins's prose is a direct descendent from that of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, and nowhere else in his mastery of the language as evident as in Langrishe, Go Down, which the Irish Times applauded as "the best Irish novel since At Swim-Two-Birds and the novels of Beckett."

Langrishe, Go Down

Msi Assoc

Langrishe Go Down

Contemporary

Opening 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 about his life in Ireland, his time in a Catholic school, his first sexual experiences, and his brother's mental breakdown. The second half of the book centers around his relationship with his future wife Olivia, her past, and her former lovers. Calling to mind Joyce's Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man for Dan Ruttle's love-hate relationship with Ireland and the stylistic innovations employed by Higgins, Scenes from a Receding Past is a masterpiece from one of Ireland's greatest contemporary writers.

Scenes from a receding past

Calder

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Dog Days

The Whole Hog

Bornholm Night Ferry (Abacus Books)

Donkeys Years

The Whole Hog

Balcony of Europe

Balcony of Europe

Langrishe, Go Down

Langrishe Go Down

Scenes from a receding past