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Flotsam and Jetsam


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Aidan Higgins is one of the most highly respected Irish writers of the past fifty years, heir to such master stylists as James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. The short prose and fiction collected here spans Higgins's entire career, and provides American readers with a compelling introduction to a major international literary figure.

 

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ISBN-10 1-56478-316-2
ISBN-13 9781564783165
Publication Date Mar 2002
Nb of pages 470
Dimensions 5.5 x 8 in.

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Press Reviews

Sunday Times (London)
His characters, eccentric, tattered, inconsequent, slowly and powerfully burning up their lives, are unwieldy and magnificent . . . Aidan Higgins is a writer of great originality and strength.

Spectator
Higgins writes with genuine Irish bitter poetic intensity . . . He reminds me of novelists who used to write for the sake of writing, to achieve what Nabokov called 'aesthetic bliss.' Higgins helps to revive language.

Sunday Independent (Dublin)
Aidan Higgins is a born writer, in love with language and what language can do.

Times Literary Supplement
Flotsam and Jetsam offers a vivid illustration of Higgins's range and eclecticism, his outstanding control of atmospheres, his literary development and his importance in the history of
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Guardian
The stories have an indolent strength, a somberness, a sense of necessity.

Irish Times
Text hardly comes more real than this.



Quotations

In you, together with the beginner, is the old hand.
-Samuel Beckett

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