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The Whole Hog

Aidan Higgins author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:6th Dec '01

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A sequel to Donkey' Years and Dog Days 20010730

This spirited and quirky penman has always set himself apart form the general grind of Irish writing and its set themes, to run along the line of the exposed nerve-system.No other Irish writer has been so obsessed with the terrain inconnu of lost or thwarted love as this odd-man-out.Donkey's Years and Dog Days were the first two volumes of these remarkable memoirs, of which The Whole Hog now completes the Higgins Bestiary. This spirited and quirky penman has always set himself apart form the general grind of Irish writing and its set themes, to run along the line of the exposed nerve-system.No other Irish writer has been so obsessed with the terrain inconnu of lost or thwarted love as this odd-man-out. From salad love with Molly Cushen, to Philippa Phillips in the dunes, to a young American wife in Spain at the time of the Bay of Pigs, or a divorcée in Copenhagen, a tax inspectress in London, the Jacaranda Street tease in Johannesburg, the mirth is barely contained

  • Short-listed for Irish Times Literary Prize,Irish Non-fiction 2001

ISBN: 9780099286356

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 24mm

Weight: 289g

416 pages