Darkling Plain: Texts for the Air

by Aidan Higgins, Daniel Jernigan (Editor)

Overview

Though best known as the author of a series of brilliant novels, here Higgins turns his writerly gifts to work for the radio.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781564785374
Publisher:	Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date:	01/26/2010
Series:	Irish Literature Series
Pages:	509
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

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. His books include "Scenes from a Receding Past", "Bornholm Night-Ferry", "Balcony of Europe", and "Langrishe, Go Down", which was adapted for television by Harold Pinter.

What People are Saying About This

Annie Proulx

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.

Samuel Beckett

In you, together with the beginner, is the old hand.

Editorial Reviews

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.

Sunday Times (London)