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1	Flotsam & Jetsam more books like this by Aidan Higgins add to wishlist Short fiction over four decades, from a daringly experimental writer from Ireland. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.20! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Samuel Beckett: Photographs more books like this by Aidan Higgins, John Minihan (Photographer) add to wishlist The most remarkable thing about this collection of photographs of Samuel Beckett is that it exists at all, for Beckett was notoriously elusive throughout his life. When he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, journalists were unable to locate him for interviews and photographs; he did not even go to Stockholm to accept the prize. Collected ... see all copies from $7.50! new only from $10.98! \| first editions \| SVS
3	A Bestiary more books like this by Aidan Higgins add to wishlist "A Bestiary relates the life and times of one of Ireland's greatest contemporary writers. Detailing his life from his childhood in County Kildare before his family's economic decline, to his mother's slow, agonizing death; from his travels in England and South Africa, to his two years spend living with a schoolmistress after the end of his first ... see all copies from $3.75! new only from $13.04! \| SVS
4	Dog Days more books like this by Aidan Higgins add to wishlist 'Tired of walking in the dream I have returned to the country where I was born half a century ago' - The Higgins family is now dispersed; the third son of four brothers is himself the father of three sons in a family also dispersed, and our author 'looking for the quietness that Julian Sorel found in prison'. He finds this problematical peace, ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $33.14! \| first editions
5	Ronda Gorge & other precipices : travel writing 1956-1989 more books like this by Aidan Higgins add to wishlist see all copies from $19.76! first editions
6	Weaver's Women by Aidan Higgins add to wishlist A tale of the Wronged Wife and the Other Woman, and the Bone of Contention, Weaver. The two rivals play out rivalries in Berlin just before the Wall came tumbling down. By the author of "Langrishe, Go Down", which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Irish Academy of Letters Award. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $37.53!
7	Windy Arbours: Collected Critisism more books like this by Aidan Higgins add to wishlist In addition to his novels and stories, Aidan Higgins--one of Ireland's most respected contemporary writers--has written a large body of criticism over his career. Windy Arbours collects pieces he wrote between 1970-1990 and is the first collection of his reviews to be published. Incredibly well-read, Higgins covers writers from around the world, ... see all copies from $3.90! new only from $18.60!
8	A Century of short stories more books like this by Aidan Higgins add to wishlist see all copies from $17.37!
9	Bornholm night-ferry : a novel by Aidan Higgins add to wishlist see all copies from $23.08! first editions
10	Helsingør Station & other departures : fictions & autobiographies 1956-1989 by Aidan Higgins add to wishlist The first one-volume collection of short fiction by one of Ireland's most popular writers. The stories contain a wide variety of characters and locations, often treading a fine line between fiction and autobiography. see all copies from $8.28! first editions
11	Balcony of Europe more books like this by Aidan Higgins add to wishlist From one of the great Irish writers of the twentieth century, and one of the few whose work bears comparison with that of Joyce and Beckett. see all copies from $12.00! first editions
12	Windy Arbours: Collected Criticism more books like this by Aidan Higgins add to wishlist In addition to his novels and stories, Aidan Higgins--one of Ireland's most respected contemporary writers--has written a large body of criticism over his career. Windy Arbours collects pieces he wrote between 1970-1990 and is the first collection of his reviews to be published. Incredibly well-read, Higgins covers writers from around the world, ... see all copies from $24.98! new only from $24.98!
13	Scenes from a Receding Past more books like this by Aidan Higgins add to wishlist Opening with a quote from Richard Brautigan--"I've been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning."--Scenes from a Receding Past constructs the adolescence and early adulthood of Dan Ruttle out of a variety of scenes and reminiscences about his life in Ireland, his time in a Catholic school ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14	Bornholm night-ferry more books like this by Aidan Higgins add to wishlist Chopin's funeral, bisecting the 19th century, stands as a turning point, with both his life and music playing out at the crossroads. His decline and death, following a series of catastrophes and on the brink of a new style, were final chapters in an often tragic life, but also reflected larger historical forces. This biography views his death as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.94! \| first editions \| SVS
15	Langrishe, go down more books like this by Higgins add to wishlist The story of Imogen Langrishe, the youngest of four spinster sisters, and her one love affair, with a German, an eternal student. Their dried-up lives are explored in the soft landscapes of Ireland. This novel won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Irish Academy of Letters Award. see all copies from $2.29! new only from $7.84! \| SVS
16 view cover	Donkeys Years more books like this by Aidan Higgins add to wishlist In this racy memoir, Irish author Aidan Higgins dissects the folie de grandeur of a Catholic family in County Kildare. He examines the mystery of growing up, his rearing on a rundown estate within the English Pale, the decline of a family fortune and the wide world that he discovers in London and South Africa. He also digs up family skeletons and ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $25.04! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Whole Hog more books like this by Higgins add to wishlist 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 nerve-system. No other Irish writer has been so ... see all copies from $11.99! new only from $11.99! \| first editions
18 view cover	Langri, Langrishe, Go Down by Aidan Higgins add to wishlist see all copies from $3.98! new only from $22.99!
19	Felo de se. by Aidan Higgins add to wishlist see all copies from $19.94! first editions
20	Killachter meadow; [six stories] by Aidan Higgins add to wishlist see all copies from $18.00! first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Donkey's years : memories of a life as story told more books like this by Aidan Higgins add to wishlist In this racy memoir, Irish author Aidan Higgins dissects the folie de grandeur of a Catholic family in County Kildare. He examines the mystery of growing up, his rearing on a rundown estate within the English Pale, the decline of a family fortune and the wide world that he discovers in London and South Africa. He also digs up family skeletons and ... see all copies from $22.70! first editions
22	Langrishe, go down; a novel. by Aidan Higgins add to wishlist see all copies from $5.40! SVS
23	Colossal Gongorr and the Turkes of Mars more books like this by Carl Higgins, Julien Higgins, Elwin Higgins, Aidan Higgins add to wishlist see all copies from $23.54! first editions
24	Lions of the Grunewald more books like this by Aidan Higgins add to wishlist see all copies from $18.23! first editions

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