Langrishe, Go Down

Set against the backdrop of 1930s Europe, Higgin's classic novel depicts the demise of the old order of power in Ireland.

About the author

Aidan Higgins (1927-2015) was born in Celbridge, County Kildare. 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. In 2001, he was conferred with an honorary doctorate of letters by the National University of Ireland, Cork.

Summary

Set against the backdrop of 1930s Europe, Higgin's classic novel depicts the demise of the old order of power in Ireland.

Foreword

Higgin's classic novel depicting the demise of the old order of power in Ireland. 'His masterpiece' JOHN BANVILLE.

Additional text

Deserves to be more widely known, not only for its extraordinary mournful beauty, but also for its apocalyptic vision of a culture's squandering and rottenness, for its throughgoing dismantling of the Irish house of fiction, and as one of the great works of European anti-authority' TLS.

Product details

• Authors: Aidan Higgins
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781786695208
• ISBN: 978-1-78669-520-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 201 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, Fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary