Flotsam and Jetsam (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Aidan Higgins
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Autobiography, short fiction, and travel
- Genres: Memoir, Travel writing, Short fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Wives, Traveling or travelers, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, Suicide, Authors or writers, Mental illness, Obsession, Adultery, Holidays, Ireland or Irish people
This aptly named mélange of fiction and nonfiction covers thirty years of Aidan Higgins’s literary career, beginning with his first book of stories, Felo de Se, in 1960. Because Higgins so often recycles and republishes his work under different titles, it is necessary to identify the previous publication of the pieces included here. One of Higgins’s most famous stories, “North Salt Holdings,” has the following history. It was first published as “Killachter Meadow” in the collection Felo de Se, which in turn was republished in 1972 as Asylum, and Other...
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