A Very Strange Man: A Memoir of Aidan Higgins

by Alannah Hopkin

This is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a literary stylist, often cited as the heir to Ireland's great Modernist tradition. They wrote steadily during their twenty-nine years together, but their careers could not have been more different: while...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848407939
• ISBN13: 9781848407930
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: New Island Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.