From one of the great Irish writers of the twentieth century, and one of the few whose work bears comparison with that of Joyce and Beckett. Aidan Higgins's greatest novel has long been unavailable, and is here reissued in a new and revised edition. Balcony of Europe, which was shortlisted for the 1972 Booker Prize, tells the story of a complacent young Jewish wife from San Francisco and a middle-aged Irish painter who meet in a village on the coast of Spain, beginning an affair during the coldest European winter in two hundred years--all the while surrounded by a cast of characters as bizarre and hilarious as they are, finally, touching. Lyrical and humorous, heartbreaking and hopeful, Balcony of Europe is Aidan Higgins's crowning achievement. .
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"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." --Annie Proulx
"In you, together with the beginner, is the old hand." --Samuel Beckett
"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) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
"In you, together with the beginner, is the old hand." --Samuel Beckett
"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) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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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--especially in his novels. Although his reputation as a writer is well established in the UK and Ireland, most of his books have never been available in the U.S., a situation that Dalkey Archive Press is changing through the publication of many of his works.
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