{"product_id":"bestiary-an-autobiography-9781564783585","title":"Bestiary: An Autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published as three separate volumes--\"Donkey's Years,\" \" Dog Days,\" and \"The Whole Hog\"--\"A Bestiary\" relates the life and times of one of Ireland's greatest contemporary writers. As in his fiction, Higgins's writing exquisitely captures sights, smells, and emotions, detailing his life from childhood in County Kildare before his family's economic decline, to his mother's slow, agonizing death; from his travels in England and South Africa, to his two years spent living with a schoolmistress after the end of his first marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn writing his memoirs Higgins exposes the sources for many of his best novels, from \"Scenes from a Receding Past\" to \"Langrishe, Go Down,\" giving the reader a rare look into the \"story behind the story.\" But \"A Bestiary\" is more than a factual expose--this collection of memoirs is constructed in a novelistic way, creating a work of literary art out of a life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dalkey Archive Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781564783585\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 672\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.40w x 2.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/14\/2004 pg. 55\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2004 pg. 1811\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2004 pg. 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/02\/2004 pg. 55\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aidan Higgins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36659928629404,"sku":"9781564783585","price":42.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_26bc23a6-0e1b-411b-baa2-83de04ee23bb.jpg?v=1603895714","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/bestiary-an-autobiography-9781564783585","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}