Langrishe, Go Down by Aidan Higgins
The lights in the bus burned dim, orange-hued behind opaque bevelled glass; ranged below the luggage racks they lit up the advertisement panels with repeated circles of bilious light. A white face that never seemed to turn away was watching her in the glass. Imogen Langrishe, the youngest of four sisters, embarks on a reckless love affair with a charismatic and indigent German scholar. Her family's name has long been a byword for money, status and respectability in Celbridge, County Kildare, but the world is now changing.
Takes the breath out of you -- Annie Proulx
Half a century since its publication, Langrishe, Go Down remains bold, expressive and daring.. It is a defining great Irish novel; in fact, it is a defining international modernist novel that resonates with dark and very human intent' * Irish Times *
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 *
Half a century since its publication, Langrishe, Go Down remains bold, expressive and daring.. It is a defining great Irish novel; in fact, it is a defining international modernist novel that resonates with dark and very human intent' * Irish Times *
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 *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781786695208 |
| ISBN 10 | 1786695200 |
| Title | Langrishe, Go Down |
| Author | Aidan Higgins |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2017-07-13 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
| Prizes | Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1966, Winner of Irish Academy of Letters Award 1966 |
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