Langrishe, Go Down

By Aidan Higgins

The lights in the bus burned dim, orange-hued behind opaque bevelled glass; ranged below the luggage racks they lit up the advertisement panels with repeated circles of bilious light. A white face that never seemed to turn away was watching her in the glass.

Imogen Langrishe, the youngest of four sisters, embarks on a reckless love affair with a charismatic and indigent German scholar. Her family's name has long been a byword for money, status and respectability in Celbridge, County Kildare, but the world is now changing.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Apollo Library
• Release date: Jul 13, 2017
• ISBN: 9781786695192

Aidan Higgins

Aidan Higgins (1927-2015) was born in Celbridge, County Kildare. 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. In 2001, he was conferred with an honorary doctorate of letters by the National University of Ireland, Cork.

Reviews for Langrishe, Go Down

[kymmac · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Odd book. Reminiscent of English novel but skewered somehow. Confused by initial POV and switch to Imogene, but good ambience and interesting take on character, esp. Male writer.

[starbox_2 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A weird, atmospheric tale of decay in an impoverished if "better class" household of three sisters (one hs already died.) in late 1930s DublinLiving in gloom, cold and ruin- their parents dead, the house crumbling about them...and unexplained hostilities between them.- the story focusses mainly on 40-ish Imogen, and her doomed relationship with a seemingly useless German student, staying in one of their properties.There's no great STORY as such, but it is poetic, atmospheric and quite memorable.