Flotsam & jetsam / Aidan Higgins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Higgins, Aidan, 1927-2015.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ireland--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Ireland.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

470 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Dalkey Archive edition.

Other Title:

Flotsam and jetsam

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Dalkey Archive Press, 2002.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

I Flotsam and Jetsam 3

In Old Heidelberg 19

Berlin After Dark 43

Lebensraum 62

North Salt Holdings 79

Asylum 101

II Catchpole 177

III Helsing[oslash]r Station 229

Sodden Fields 249

The Bird I Fancied 290

Frere Jacques, Bruder Hans 365

The Other Day I Was Thinking of You 373

Under the Ice Shelf 384

IV Ronda Gorge 391

Black September 411

The Opposite Land 426

V Lengthening Shadows 441

Ruckblick 458.

ISBN:

1564783162

OCLC:

48515630