Flotsam & Jetsam

Aidan Higgins author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press

Published:21st Mar '02

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Flotsam & Jetsam cover

Considered to be one of the best Irish writers of the twentieth century, Aidan Higgins has earned a reputation throughout Europe as an unusual and astringent prose stylist. This omnibus of selected short fiction is the perfect introduction to the talents of this Irish successor to James Joyce and Samuel Beckett (although Higgins's work is perhaps more reminiscent of his Welsh contemporary Dylan Thomas), and displays Higgins's warmth of language and character. From a melancholy tale of suicide in "North Salt Holdings" to a colorful depiction of J. J. Catchpole's escapades in "Catchpole, " Higgins builds his characters into touching failures who both attract and repulse the reader.

"Determinedly odd and aesthetically uncompromising..."--Publishers Weekly

ISBN: 9781564783165

Dimensions: 204mm x 140mm x 33mm

Weight: 535g

470 pages