Donkeys Years Aidan Higgins

Name: Donkeys Years von Aidan Higgins
SKU: 9780749396947
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Zusammenfassung

In this bawdy memoir, Irish author Aidan Higgins dissects the pretensions of a Catholic family in County Kildare. He examines the mystery of growing up, his rearing on a run-down estate, the decline of a family fortune, and the wide world that he discovered in London and South Africa.

Donkeys Years Zusammenfassung

Donkeys Years Aidan Higgins

'Opening with a child's-eye view, [Donkey's Years] incorporates local history and topography, evoking with vivid, physical detail the voices of his playmates, the smells, colours and sounds of this peaceful corner of Ireland in the 1930s and '40s...It comes as no surprise that Aidan Higgins...has written an autobiography that has the texture of a novel' Irish Times

'Leaving down Donkey's Years at four in the morning after one straight reading I felt exhilarated...Read it and see. Few books inspire like this' Dermot Healy

'The best book since Langrishe. It's absolutely wonderful. He is still (and always was) the best English-language prose stylist in the country' Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill

'Donkey's Years must rank as one of the finest books in English since the War' The Phoenix

Donkeys Years Bewertungen

Opening with a child's-eye view, [Donkey's Years] incorporates local history and topography, evoking with vivid, physical detail the voices of his playmates, the smells, colours and sounds of this peaceful corner of Ireland in the 1930s and '40s ... It comes as no surprise that Aidan Higgins ... has written an autobiography that has the texture of a novel * Irish Times *
Leaving down Donkey's Years at four in the morning after one straight reading I felt exhilarated ... Read it and see. Few books inspire like this' -- Dermot Healy
The best book since Langrishe. It's absolutely wonderful, He is still (and always was) the best English-language prose stylist in the country' -- Nuasa Ni Dhomhnaill
Donkey's Years must rank as one of the finest books in English since the War * The Phoenix *

Über Aidan Higgins

Aidan Higgins was born in 1927. Langrishe Go Down, his first novel, won the James Tait Black memorial Prize and the Irish Academy of Letters Award, and was later filmed for television with a screenplay by Harold Pinter. His second novel, Balcony of Europe, was shortlisted for the 1972 Booker Prize. The novel Lions of the Grunewald appeared in 1993 and a collection of shorter fiction, Flotsam and jetsam, in 1996. Donkey's Years and Dog Days were the first two volumes of the Higgins Bestiary which concludes with this volume.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR013377418

ISBN 13

9780749396947

ISBN 10

0749396946

Titel

Donkeys Years Aidan Higgins

Autor

Aidan Higgins

Zustand

Gebraucht - Wie Neu

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Vintage Publishing

Datum

19960610

Anzahl der Seiten

352

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N/A

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