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Bornholm Night-FerryAuthor: Aidan Higgins Irish Literature Series June 2006 175 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 paperback, 1-56478-415-0 Retail Paperback Price: Our Paperback Price: $10.36 
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Book Description
During the five years of their adulterous affair, Finn Fitzgerald and Elin Marstrander spend only 47 days and nights together. At each of their meetings—in Spain or London, or on the tiny island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, which serves as their last refuge—they try to conjure a reality that will correspond to that of the passionate letters they exchange while apart.
Elin, a Danish poet, and Fitz, an Irish novelist, send each other beautiful, loving words, as well as evocative jabs of cruelty, often in the same letter. In the whirling world of their writing they attempt to enjoy their love in the calm they can't find in their daily lives. But as reality—their lovers and their children; their failures and regrets—creeps in, their relationship inevitably crumbles: "The dream ends."
About the Author
| Aidan Higgins has written short stories, novels, travel pieces, radio plays, and a large body of criticism. A consummate stylist, his writing is lush and complex— especially in his novels. Although his reputation as a writer is well established in the UK and Ireland, most of his books have never been available in the U.S., a situation that Dalkey Archive Press is changing through the publication of many of his works. |
Praise
"Higgins provides much sharp detail. . . . He describes places like a painter."—John Mellors, The Listener"A bare summary does not do this novel justice. Higgins is a consummate writer."—British Book News
"This novel makes love less an act than a representation. Increasingly the eroticism becomes embodied in language, memory and travel rather than in sexuality itself. What Bornholm Night-Ferry is describing is the vital role that fantasy plays in everyday life—without necessarily interfering with the quotidian."—Angela McRobbie, New Statesman
"This correspondence is shaped into a moving story by Higgins, a writer with an excellent command of the epistolary device. The letters allow distinct portraits to emerge."—Publishers Weekly
More Information
Also by Aidan Higgins:A Bestiary
Balcony of Europe
Darkling Plain: Texts for the Air
Flotsam and Jetsam
Langrishe, Go Down
Scenes from a Receding Past
Windy Arbours