Dog Days
  • Published: 15 October 1999
  • ISBN: 9780099274926
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $24.95

Dog Days

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'Tired of walking in the dream I have returned to the country where I was born half a century ago' - The Higgins family is now dispersed; the third son of four brothers is himself the father of three sons in a family also dispersed, and our author 'looking for the quietness that Julian Sorel found in prison. ' he finds this problematical peace, sharing a bungalow near Brittas in Co Wicklow in an awkward two year tenancy with a school mistress with back back trouble. DOG DAYS is an account of those two years, with flashbacks to previous diaries that reveal a murky Dublin of whores and Provo killing, a raindrenched Connemara.
  • Published: 15 October 1999
  • ISBN: 9780099274926
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $24.95
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About the author

Aidan Higgins

Aidan Higgins was born in 1927. Langrishe Go Down, his first novel, won the James Tait Black memorial Prize and the Irish Academy of Letters Award, and was later filmed for television with a screenplay by Harold Pinter. His second novel, Balcony of Europe, was shortlisted for the 1972 Booker Prize. The novel Lions of the Grunewald appeared in 1993 and a collection of shorter fiction, Flotsam and jetsam, in 1996. Donkey's Years and Dog Days were the first two volumes of the Higgins Bestiary which concludes with this volume.

Also by Aidan Higgins

The Whole Hog
Flotsam And Jetsam
Donkeys Years
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