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Donkeys Years: Memoirs of a Life as Story Told
Aidan Higgins
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Description for Donkeys Years: Memoirs of a Life as Story Told
paperback. In this bawdy memoir, Irish author Aidan Higgins dissects the pretensions of a Catholic family in County Kildare. He examines the mystery of growing up, his rearing on a run-down estate, the decline of a family fortune, and the wide world that he discovered in London and South Africa. Num Pages: 352 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 198 x 28. Weight in Grams: 256. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
'Opening with a child's-eye view, [Donkey's Years] incorporates local history and topography, evoking with vivid, physical detail the voices of his playmates, the smells, colours and sounds of this peaceful corner of Ireland in the 1930s and '40s...It comes as no surprise that Aidan Higgins...has written an autobiography that has the texture of a novel' Irish Times
'Leaving down Donkey's Years at four in the morning after one straight reading I felt exhilarated...Read it and see. Few books inspire like this' Dermot Healy
'The best book since Langrishe. It's absolutely wonderful. He is still (and always was) the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780749396947
SKU
KSG0032485
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Aidan Higgins
Aidan Higgins was born in 1927. Langrishe Go Down, his first novel, won the James Tait Black memorial Prize and the Irish Academy of Letters Award, and was later filmed for television with a screenplay by Harold Pinter. His second novel, Balcony of Europe, was shortlisted for the 1972 Booker Prize. The novel Lions of the Grunewald appeared in 1993 ... Read more
Reviews for Donkeys Years: Memoirs of a Life as Story Told
Opening with a child's-eye view, [Donkey's Years] incorporates local history and topography, evoking with vivid, physical detail the voices of his playmates, the smells, colours and sounds of this peaceful corner of Ireland in the 1930s and '40s ... It comes as no surprise that Aidan Higgins ... has written an autobiography that has the texture of a novel
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