Balcony of Europe (Irish Literature Series) by Higgins, Aidan

Dalkey Archive Press , pp. 360 . Papeback. New.

Dalkey Archive Press, 2010-01-01. Revised ed. paperback. Used: Good.

Dalkey Archive Press, 2010-01-01. Revised ed. paperback. Used:Good.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

2010. Champaign and London, Dalkey Archive Press, 2010. 8°. 358 pages. Original Softcover. Inscribed and signed by Aidan Higgins to irish photographer John Minihan on the front free endpaper. Aidan Higgins (born 3 March 1927) is an Irish writer. His upbringing in a landed Catholic family in Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland, provided material for his first experimental novel, Langrishe, Go Down (1966). The book was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and was later adapted as a BBC television film by British playwright Harold Pinter, in association with RTÉ. Various writings have been collected and reprinted by the Dalkey Archive Press, including his three volume autobiography, A Bestiary, and a collection of fiction, Flotsam and Jetsam, both of which demonstrate his wide erudition and his experience of life and travel in South Africa, Germany and London which gives his writing a largely cosmopolitan feel, utilizing a range of European languages in turns of phrase. He now lives… Read More