| A Bestiary Contributor(s): Higgins, Aidan (Author) |
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ISBN: 156478357X ISBN-13: 9781564783578 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2004 Annotation: "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 marriage, Higgins exposes the sources for many of his best novels, giving the reader a rare look into the "story behind the story." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2003070084 |
| Series: Irish Literature |
| Physical Information: 2.1" H x 6.1" W x 9" (2.25 lbs) 742 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Ireland |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Originally published as three separate volumes--"Donkey's Years," " Dog Days," and "The Whole Hog"--"A Bestiary" relates the life and times of one of Ireland's greatest contemporary writers. As in his fiction, Higgins's writing exquisitely captures sights, smells, and emotions, detailing his life from 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 spent living with a schoolmistress after the end of his first marriage. In writing his memoirs Higgins exposes the sources for many of his best novels, from "Scenes from a Receding Past" to "Langrishe, Go Down," giving the reader a rare look into the "story behind the story." But "A Bestiary" is more than a factual expose--this collection of memoirs is constructed in a novelistic way, creating a work of literary art out of a life. |