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Beschreibung
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 [...] 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 divorcée in Copenhagen a tax inspectress in London the Jacaranda Street tease in Johannesburg the mirth is barely contained
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 [...] 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 divorcée in Copenhagen a tax inspectress in London the Jacaranda Street tease in Johannesburg the mirth is barely contained
Über den Autor
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780099286356
ISBN-10: 0099286351
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Higgins, Aidan
Hersteller: Vintage
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Aidan Higgins
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.12.2001
Gewicht: 0,493 kg
Artikel-ID: 131812796