Product Description

This work is a selection of prose, some previously unpublished, written by the author since the 1960s. It includes work adapted from earlier, short stories and radio plays.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1244198 in Books
• Published on: 1997-01-27
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

From the Back Cover
Aidan Higgins has won an international reputation as an unusual and astringent prose stylist. Though better known for his five novels, he began as a writer of short stories. Felo de Se (1960) signalled the arrival of a writer of lavish talents, praised by both English and Continental critics.
This collection of short fiction, covering the period 1960-96, displays all that mastery. Here is one writer working at the top of his bent, following in the footsteps of Joyce and Beckett.
'The stories have an indolent strength, a sombreness, a sense of necessity' Guardian
'In you, together with the beginner, is the old hand' Samuel Beckett
'Text hardly comes more real than this' Irish Times

Customer Reviews

A truly great modern writer - Higgins at his sinuous best
Dense, muscular language. Themes of love and loss, water and earth - inextricably intertwined. A sense of space and place - timeless - which invites the reader into Higgins world, and causes the reader to want to participate in the comings and goings of this world of strong, temporary love, and sharp, eternal, loss.

Worth buying for the story of Hampstead infidelity and passion, the stroll around Kinsale, and for the accurate description of Ireland's warmest pub - the Bulman.

Bring on the weirds
Do you ever get the impression normal people, with their normal everyday woes and passions, are over-represented on the printed page? This chunky and original book is full up with the other kind of people: misfits and strange ones. People whose lives don't really add up to conventional fiction "meanings". And all the more readable for it. Shame it's not easier to get hold of.