Aidan Higgins

Flotsam & Jetsam

Buch

Considered 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 Samuel Beckett (although Higgins's work is perhaps more reminiscent of his Welsh contemporary Dylan Thomas), and displays Higgins's warmth of language and character. From a melancholy tale of suicide in North Salt Holdings to a colorful depiction of J. J. Catchpole's escapades in Catchpole, Higgins builds his characters into touching failures who bo… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-56478-316-5
EAN: 9781564783165
Produktnummer: 9698677
Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Seitenangabe: 470 S.

Über den Autor

Aidan Higgins has written short stories, novels, travel pieces, radio plays, and a large body of criticism. A consummate stylist, his writing is lush and complex. His books include Scenes from a Receding Past, Bornholm Night-Ferry, Balcony of Europe, and Langrishe, Go Down, which was adapted for television by Harold Pinter.