Dog Days
Author | : Aidan Higgins |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2011-04-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781446467305 |
ISBN-13 | : 1446467309 |
Rating | : 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 'Tired of walking in the dream I have returned to the country where I was born half a century ago' - The Higgins family is now dispersed; the third son of four brothers is himself the father of three sons in a family also dispersed, and our author 'looking for the quietness that Julian Sorel found in prison. ' he finds this problematical peace, sharing a bungalow near Brittas in Co Wicklow in an awkward two year tenancy with a school mistress with back back trouble. DOG DAYS is an account of those two years, with flashbacks to previous diaries that reveal a murky Dublin of whores and Provo killing, a raindrenched Connemara.