Langrishe, Go Down - Softcover

Higgins, Aidan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848405499 ISBN 13: 9781848405493

Publisher: New Island Books, 2016

Synopsis

Imogen Langrishe, youngest of the four Langrishe sisters, whose name has long meant money, status and respect to the people of Celbridge, County Kildare, embarks on a reckless love affair. Set against the backdrop of a crumbling 1930s Europe, Aidan Higgins's classic novel depicts the demise of the old order of power in Ireland, as Imogen's loss of inhibition leads her deeper into the sensual yet lonely world of despair and heartbreak. Langrishe Go Down was first published in 1966 and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Irish Academy of Letters Award, and was made into a film with a screenplay by Harold Pinter.

About this title

About the Author

Aidan Higgins was born in Celbridge, Co. Kildare in 1927. He has won numerous awards, including the Irish America Foundation Grant and DAAD (Berlin). Later novels include Balcony of Europe (1972), which was short-listed for the Booker Prize, Scenes from a Receding Past (1977), Bornholm Night-Ferry (1983) and Lions of the Grunewald (1993). His collected stories, Flotsam and Jetsam, followed in 1996.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Island Books
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848405499
• ISBN 13: 9781848405493
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250