Langrishe, Go Down
Published on 13. July 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-1-78669-520-8 (ISBN)
Description
The lights in the bus burned dim, orange-hued behind opaque bevelled glass; ranged below the luggage racks they lit up the advertisement panels with repeated circles of bilious light. A white face that never seemed to turn away was watching her in the glass.
Imogen Langrishe, the youngest of four sisters, embarks on a reckless love affair with a charismatic and indigent German scholar. Her family's name has long been a byword for money, status and respectability in Celbridge, County Kildare, but the world is now changing.
Imogen Langrishe, the youngest of four sisters, embarks on a reckless love affair with a charismatic and indigent German scholar. Her family's name has long been a byword for money, status and respectability in Celbridge, County Kildare, but the world is now changing.
Reviews / Votes
Takes the breath out of you -- Annie Proulx Half a century since its publication, Langrishe, Go Down remains bold, expressive and daring... It is a defining great Irish novel; in fact, it is a defining international modernist novel that resonates with dark and very human intent' * Irish Times * Deserves to be more widely known, not only for its extraordinary mournful beauty, but also for its apocalyptic vision of a culture's squandering and rottenness, for its throughgoing dismantling of the Irish house of fiction, and as one of the great works of European anti-authority * TLS *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78669-520-8 (9781786695208)
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Aidan Higgins (1927-2015) was born in Celbridge, County Kildare. Langrishe, Go Down, his first novel, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Irish Academy of Letters Award, and was later filmed for television, with a screenplay by Harold Pinter. In 2001, he was conferred with an honorary doctorate of letters by the National University of Ireland, Cork.