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Flotsam & Jetsam
Paperback
Series: Irish Literature
Publisher Price: $15.95
ISBN13: 9781564783165
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: Mar 1 2002
Pages: 470
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
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 both attract and repulse the reader.
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