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Langrishe, Go Down

Langrishe, Go Down

Higgins, Aidan

Paperback

Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1628973927
ISBN13: 9781628973921
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: Dec 27 2022
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

An eminently poetic book, Langrishe, Go Down (Higgins's first novel) traces the fall of the Langrishes-a once wealthy, highly respected Irish family-through the lives of their four daughters, especially the youngest, Imogen, whose love affair with a self-centered German scholar resonates throughout the book. Their relationship, told in lush, erotic, and occasionally melancholic prose, comes to represent not only the invasion and decline of this insular family, but the decline of Ireland and Western Europe as a whole in the years preceding World War II. In the tradition of great Irish writing, Higgins's prose is a direct descendent from that of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, and nowhere else in his mastery of the language as evident as in Langrishe, Go Down, which the Irish Times applauded as the best Irish novel since At Swim-Two-Birds and the novels of Beckett.

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