Flotsam & Jetsam

Considered to be one of the best Irish writers of the twentieth century, Aidan Higgins has earned a reputation throughout Europe as an unusual and astringent prose stylist. This omnibus of selected short fiction is the perfect introduction to the talents of this Irish successor to James Joyce and Samuel Beckett (although Higgins's work is perhaps more reminiscent of his Welsh contemporary Dylan Thomas), and displays Higgins's warmth of language and character. From a melancholy tale of suicide in "North Salt Holdings" to a colorful depiction of J. J. Catchpole's escapades in "Catchpole, " Higgins builds his characters into touching failures who both attract and repulse the reader.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 03/01/2002
ISBN: 9781564783165
Pages: 470
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.55w x 1.33d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2002 pg. 17
Library Journal 02/15/2002 pg. 180
Publishers Weekly 02/18/2002 pg. 75
Booklist 03/01/2002 pg. 1092
New York Times 06/16/2002 pg. 24
New York Review of Books 12/02/2004 pg. 55