Published by Vintage, part of Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
£9.99
Author:
Aidan Higgins
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780749396947
£9.99
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EAN: 9780749396947
Published: 10 Jun 1996
'Opening with a child's-eye view, [Donkey's Years] incorporates local history and topography, evoking with vivid, physical detail the voices of his playmates, the smells, colours and sounds of this peaceful corner of Ireland in the 1930s and '40s...It comes as no surprise that Aidan Higgins...has written an autobiography that has the texture of a novel' Irish Times
'Leaving down Donkey's Years at four in the morning after one straight reading I felt exhilarated...Read it and see. Few books inspire like this' Dermot Healy
'The best book since Langrishe. It's absolutely wonderful. He is still (and always was) the best English-language prose stylist in the country' Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
'Donkey's Years must rank as one of the finest books in English since the War' The Phoenix
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Opening with a child's-eye view, [Donkey's Years] incorporates local history and topography, evoking with vivid, physical detail the voices of his playmates, the smells, colours and sounds of this peaceful corner of Ireland in the 1930s and '40s ... It comes as no surprise that Aidan Higgins ... has written an autobiography that has the texture of a novel
- Irish Times
Leaving down Donkey's Years at four in the morning after one straight reading I felt exhilarated ... Read it and see. Few books inspire like this'
-
The best book since Langrishe. It's absolutely wonderful, He is still (and always was) the best English-language prose stylist in the country'
-
Donkey's Years must rank as one of the finest books in English since the War
- The Phoenix
