LOVE YOUR BOOKSHOP DAY: PROMOTIONS
Aidan Higgins, born in Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland, in 1927, wrote short stories, novels, travel pieces, radio plays, and a large body of criticism. A consummate stylist, his writing is lush and complex. His books includeScenes from a Receding Past,Bornholm Night-Ferry,Balcony of Europe, andLangrishe, Go Down, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1966 and was later adapted for television by Harold Pinter. Higgins died in Kinsale, Ireland, in 2015.
The ferocious dazzling prose of Aidan Higgins, the pure architecture of his sentences, takes the breath out of you. He is one of our great writers. --Annie Proulx, author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain There is a shimmering mixture of the poetic and the precise ... as though some of the scenes are observed through glass, or from a distance and then distilled. He works wonders with cadence, moving close to a character's consciousness and then away from the character so the prose is distant, observing, painterly. --Colm Toibin
