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Langrishe, Go Down

Aidan Higgins

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#558 of 8,085 books · #308 in Fiction

Won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1966).

Langrishe, Go Down traces the fall of the Langrishes - a once wealthy, highly respected Irish family - through the lives of their four daughters, especially the youngest, Imogen, whose love affair with a self-centered German scholar resonates throughout the book. Their relationship, told in erotic and occasionally melancholic prose, comes to represent not only the invasion and decline of this insular family, but the decline of Ireland and Western Europe as a whole in the years preceding World War II.

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Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN-13
9780714503295
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Family declineDoomed love affairIrish society before World War II

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