
Langrishe, Go Down
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.
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- ISBN-13
- 9780714503295
- Genre
- Topics
- Family declineDoomed love affairIrish society before World War II
Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial PrizeWonMajor(1966)
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