Langrishe, Go Down
1st Edition
Published on 13. July 2017
280 pages
978-1-78669-519-2 (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.
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Takes the breath out of you 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
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-78669-519-2 (9781786695192)
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Aidan Higgins
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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.
Content
- Intro
- Welcome Page
- About Langrishe, Go Down
- Contents
- A Note on the Text
- Part 1: 1937
- Chapter 1: The lights in the bus burned dim
- Chapter 2: Helen awoke in sour white daylight
- Chapter 3: Taking her time, Helen cycled slowly
- Chapter 4: Helen stood in the nave of the old church
- Chapter 5: Imogen closed the door behind her
- Chapter 6: The Angelus bell began ringing from the village
- Chapter 7: In Helen's room the Venetian blinds
- Chapter 8: I hear the wind in the high beech tree
- Chapter 9: The rockery and main garden grow wild
- Part 2: 1932
- Chapter 10: Otto Beck lay in the meadow
- Chapter 11: One sunny, cloudless day
- Chapter 12: Late one night Imogen awoke
- Chapter 13: Why did I?...
- Chapter 14: As the lights were out in Agnews
- Chapter 15: Oh but it's true, Barry
- Chapter 16: When Imogen opened her eyes
- Chapter 17: Tollis peccata...
- Chapter 18: About the same time that Imogen was boarding
- Chapter 19: He asked me would I go to the theatre with him
- Chapter 20: And you, he wanted to know, you are well off?
- Chapter 21: He led her along a ferny bridle path
- Chapter 22: She came again to the cottage
- Chapter 23: They followed the sheep path
- Chapter 24: Gin days
- greenery everywhere
- Chapter 25: Imogen said with her teeth, her jaw
- Chapter 26: The autumn came and went and winter began
- Chapter 27: Dum bibitur... Otto said
- Chapter 28: Naked in the small cottage bedroom
- Chapter 29: He had been talking about his early student days
- Chapter 30: 'Dear Otto'
- Chapter 31: An uncanny dusk. End of an uncanny day
- Chapter 32: Can I help it if I'm feeling sick?
- Chapter 33: Time passed. The pale white privet flowers
- Chapter 34: The child is dead
- Part 3: 1938
- Chapter 35: The hearse stood at the gate
- Chapter 36: 'Anschluss!'
- Chapter 37: Imogen awoke early
- Afterword by John Banville
- About Aidan Higgins
- About the Afterword
- Endpapers
- About the cover and endpapers
- More from Apollo
- About Apollo
- Copyright
