
Langrishe, Go Down
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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
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- 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
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