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Flotsam and Jetsam

Flotsam and Jetsam

by Aidan Higgins (Author)

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    Paperback 1997

    $5.70
Synopsis

THE BOOK: Flotsam and Jetsam is a selection of prose, some previously unpublished, written over the last thirty five years by one of Ireland's greatest writers. It includes work adapted from earlier novels, short stories and radio plays.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 240
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 27 Jan 1997
ISBN 10: 0749396962
ISBN 13: 9780749396961
Book Overview: KEY POINTS: * One of Ireland's greatest living writers. * Praise for Donkey's Years: * 'The best book since Langrishe. It's absolutely wonderful. He is still the best English language prose stylist in the country' Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill. * 'Donkey's Years must rank as one of the finest books in English since the war' - The Phoenix 19970421

Media Reviews
The stories have an indolent strength, a sombreness, a sense of necessity. * Guardian *
In you, together with the beginner, is the old hand. * Samuel Beckett *
Text hardly comes more real than this. * Irish Times *
Author Bio
Aidan Higgins was born in 1927. His books include Langrishe, Go Down (1966), which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Irish Academy of Letters Award, and was filmed for television with a screenplay by Harold Pinter. Balcony of Europe was shortlisted for the 1972 Booker Prize. The novel Lions of the Grunewald appeared in 1993 to great acclaim.