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An account of the two years that the author spent in a bungalow near Brittas in County Wicklow, in the company of a school mistress with bad back trouble. The story is a sequel to "Donkey's Years" and also contains flashbacks to previous diaries that evoke a murky and sodden Dublin.
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'The ferocious and dazzling prose of Aidan Higgins, the pure architecture of his sentences, takes the breath out of you. He is one of our great writers. Dog Days is a magpie's hoard of misadventures, little grass fires of the heart and left-hand sleight. The reader who cannot take pleasure from it must be dead' E. Annie Proulx
'Dog Days is a meaty composition of memories from a life well-lived. The setting changes from Connemara to London to Austin, Texas, to Berlin, to Santa Cruz, California...It shifts around the entirety of Higgins's time, touching on life's majors - his father's slow end - going back to the glory of childhood trickery...Thoughts, opinions, observations seep like melted chocolate through the erudite confection of Higgins's memories. From golf to the Titanic, architecture to nuclear devices, each is touched on...The overall feel is of a life lived every inch...As he leaves to go on we feel glad for his continued, and chronicled existence' Scotland on Sunday
'His tone is richly comic...complex and fascinating' The Times
'A passionate and troubling complement to Higgins's prolific output and an exemplary addition to the canon of Irish writing' Times Literary Supplement
'Dog Days is a meaty composition of memories from a life well-lived. The setting changes from Connemara to London to Austin, Texas, to Berlin, to Santa Cruz, California...It shifts around the entirety of Higgins's time, touching on life's majors - his father's slow end - going back to the glory of childhood trickery...Thoughts, opinions, observations seep like melted chocolate through the erudite confection of Higgins's memories. From golf to the Titanic, architecture to nuclear devices, each is touched on...The overall feel is of a life lived every inch...As he leaves to go on we feel glad for his continued, and chronicled existence' Scotland on Sunday
'His tone is richly comic...complex and fascinating' The Times
'A passionate and troubling complement to Higgins's prolific output and an exemplary addition to the canon of Irish writing' Times Literary Supplement
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- PublisherMartin Secker & Warburg Ltd
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0436204843
- ISBN 13 9780436204845
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages304
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