Aidan Higgins (1927–2015)
Auteur de Langrishe, Go Down
A propos de l'auteur
Aidan Higgins, born in Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland in 1927, wrote short stories, novels, travel pieces, radio plays, and a large body of criticism. A consummate stylist, his writing is lush and complex. His books include Scenes from a Receding Past, Bornbolm Night-Ferry, Balcony of Europe, afficher plus and Langrishe, Go Down, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1966 and was later made into a movie by Harold Pinter. afficher moins
Œuvres de Aidan Higgins
Tårn og engle 2 exemplaires
De hand aan zichzelf 2 exemplaires
Lampi d'inverno: romanzo 1 exemplaire
Den siste vinter : roman 1 exemplaire
The Whole Hog 1 exemplaire
Lions of the Grunewald (Irish Literature) 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Langrishe, Go Down [1978 film] — Original book — 3 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1927-03-03
- Date de décès
- 2015-12-27
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Ireland
- Lieu de naissance
- Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland
- Lieu du décès
- Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland
- Études
- Clongowes Wood College, County Kildare
- Professions
- writer
puppeteer
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 30
- Aussi par
- 4
- Membres
- 419
- Popularité
- #58,191
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 59
- Langues
- 3
- Favoris
- 2
Living in gloom, cold and ruin- their parents dead, the house crumbling about them...and unexplained hostilities between them.- the story focusses mainly on 40-ish Imogen, and her doomed relationship with a seemingly useless German student, staying in one of their properties.
There's no great STORY as such, but it is poetic, atmospheric and quite memorable.… (plus d'informations)