A BestiaryDalkey Archive Press, 2004 - 742 Seiten Originally published as three separate volumes--"Donkey's Years," " Dog Days," and "The Whole Hog"--"A Bestiary" relates the life and times of one of Ireland's greatest contemporary writers. As in his fiction, Higgins's writing exquisitely captures sights, smells, and emotions, detailing his life from childhood in County Kildare before his family's economic decline, to his mother's slow, agonizing death; from his travels in England and South Africa, to his two years spent living with a schoolmistress after the end of his first marriage. In writing his memoirs Higgins exposes the sources for many of his best novels, from "Scenes from a Receding Past" to "Langrishe, Go Down," giving the reader a rare look into the "story behind the story." But "A Bestiary" is more than a factual expose--this collection of memoirs is constructed in a novelistic way, creating a work of literary art out of a life. |
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The Keegan Boys | 2 |
The Goat in the Tree | 36 |
The Bowsy Murray | 44 |
The Great Wall of China | 53 |
Zenos Café | 60 |
Kitted Out for Killashee | 67 |
A Day at the National School | 73 |
That Noble Pile | 82 |
October Footing | 414 |
Dusky | 415 |
Grey Days | 416 |
Verveen | 418 |
The Mangle | 419 |
A Hanging | 421 |
On Cuesta del Cielo | 422 |
The Road to Aranjuez | 425 |
The Names | 89 |
Starlings Invade the Nursery | 97 |
The Bad Smell | 103 |
The Bracing Air of Sodom | 109 |
The Price of Land the Great Lord | 122 |
The Dodo His Habitat | 128 |
The Course Record | 145 |
Ealing | 159 |
Tea With Mr Spender | 164 |
The Attic | 168 |
Billy | 172 |
The Icecream Factory | 174 |
Galustian Co | 176 |
Your Life Before Me | 180 |
The Pond | 182 |
The Ghost of Elwyn Anders | 185 |
From Fiume to Old Ragusa | 189 |
South Africa | 193 |
The Shore of Africa | 195 |
Touring with the Puppets | 199 |
The Child of Storm | 205 |
Dun Laoghaire | 209 |
The Gentleman Rider | 211 |
The Hospital by the Sea | 220 |
The Mortuary Chapel | 232 |
Sedna | 237 |
Farsoonerite Fears Preverbal Chaos Undertow of Time the Mulligrubs | 243 |
First Love | 259 |
The Happy Hours | 261 |
Sirius Rising | 266 |
Stolen Kisses | 268 |
Philippas Aged Parents | 269 |
The Bouncing Balls | 270 |
The Undertaker of Aungier Street | 271 |
On Being Whirled Away | 272 |
The Grafton Picture House and Restaurant | 275 |
An Aged Barber | 278 |
The Old Flame on Butt Bridge | 279 |
No 11 Springhill Park | 281 |
Preamble | 283 |
Beskidenstrasse | 288 |
Los Alamos | 291 |
Ballymona Lodge 1985 | 295 |
Aboard the SS St Columba | 297 |
The Return | 302 |
Santa Cruz | 304 |
DreamHouses | 305 |
Cycle of the Hours | 311 |
In the Hall of the Mountain King | 314 |
Some Suggestions for Brightening Up the Home | 315 |
My First Arrival | 317 |
Wicklow Town | 318 |
Interrogatory | 320 |
The Bum Bailiff | 323 |
Fumes | 325 |
Cash Murphy Appears | 328 |
My Second Arrival | 331 |
Lambing Time | 333 |
A Bat at Evening | 334 |
Anastasia and the Seven Dervorgillas | 338 |
Silent Love | 342 |
The Worst Choice | 344 |
Davis and Demons | 345 |
The King and Queen of Spain | 347 |
The Camarero Miguel Lopez Rojas | 350 |
197478 | 351 |
The Dodo in London | 355 |
The Classic Cinema in Baker Street | 357 |
Mornings in the Dewy Dell | 359 |
The Finn | 360 |
Cash Up for Sentencing | 362 |
The Tomb of Dreams | 367 |
The Trinity Professor | 369 |
Walking in the Dream | 372 |
Native Son | 377 |
Down in the Country | 379 |
Ballymona Lodge 1986 | 383 |
Brittas Bay | 385 |
To Arms To Arms | 388 |
The Old Flame | 392 |
The Far Horizon | 393 |
Stardust | 396 |
Lammas | 397 |
James | 399 |
The Roscommon Fairies | 405 |
Big Mick Neds Racist joke | 406 |
The Screaming Horrors | 407 |
Titanic | 410 |
Saul Bellow Reading at TCD | 428 |
An Incident on the Road to Pontoon | 429 |
A Walk to Greystones | 430 |
Garda Reynolds | 431 |
Halleys Comet | 434 |
Dervorgilla at Home | 436 |
The Eye and Ear Hospital | 438 |
The Year Ending | 439 |
The Road to Arklow | 442 |
Epilogue and Epigraphs | 443 |
The Whole Hog Prologue | 451 |
Only Family Matters | 453 |
A Bit of Strange | 455 |
Three or Four Miseries 195685 | 456 |
Forgive My Silence | 458 |
The Genesis of Langrishe Go Down | 462 |
Ordeal at Mealtimes | 465 |
Mainly Semantics | 477 |
An Unwelcome Visitor Calls | 479 |
The Handbell and the Gong | 481 |
An Unwelcome Visit Recalled | 483 |
A Fragment of the True Cross | 486 |
A Rude Country Habitation | 491 |
Brother Bun and the London Labour Mart | 498 |
Ancestral Voices | 503 |
Harry Allen J Pierpoint Morgan and Luis Buñuel | 506 |
The Monk in the Cornfield Where There Was Nobody | 511 |
Ah Those Moonlit Revels | 516 |
Roll On Ye Mighty River Roll | 517 |
Black Bucks Vain of Their Dicks | 523 |
Roryamours 195699 | 527 |
The Hoax that Joke Bilked | 528 |
The AnayaToledos of Mexico City | 530 |
The Shapely Flanks of Rita Hayworth | 531 |
Foreign Faces and Places | 537 |
Voyage | 539 |
The Jacaranda Street Nudist | 542 |
The Sharpeville Massacre 1960 | 550 |
The Lazy Azores 1960 | 553 |
Nerja in the 1960s | 559 |
Ominous Auguries | 561 |
Mrs Harriet Deck | 565 |
A Childs Funeral | 569 |
Moody Fenning Kramer and McCracken | 572 |
The Way She Walked | 574 |
Callus Alas | 576 |
Can After Can | 579 |
Kampen NactStrand | 580 |
Harriet | 582 |
Berlin Divided Munich Mordfest | 585 |
Doll | 587 |
Some Places She Took Me | 588 |
In a Strange Sort of Time | 589 |
The Giantess and the Guardsman | 591 |
September 1972 in Munich | 595 |
One Thrust and He Was In | 605 |
Danish Blue | 607 |
On the Rørvig Ferry | 609 |
Rørvig | 610 |
The Ancient Moats | 611 |
But Why Kandinsky? | 615 |
Borges and I | 618 |
In a Swedish Forest | 620 |
My Everyday | 622 |
On the Beatch with Petrushka | 626 |
Linguistics | 628 |
Such Delightful Copulatives | 631 |
A Málaga Morning | 632 |
Kronborg | 633 |
Ronda | 637 |
Petrushka | 640 |
The Floating Trousseau | 641 |
Diary April 1975 | 646 |
Last Letter | 647 |
Contretemps at Cranley Gardens 59 Events Leading to the HillAnders Divorce Decree Nisi and Absolute | 651 |
In the Woods | 655 |
Down Mexico | 671 |
Blood and Sand | 673 |
The Aztec Look | 677 |
The Zaca Sails Again | 683 |
The Jogger on Coronado Shore | 686 |
The Martinez Couple | 691 |
How the Century Ends | 693 |
The Three Brothers | 695 |
In the Long Ago | 697 |
The Great Battle | 702 |
Sir Walter Raleigh and the Cockadoodledoo | 706 |