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In this bawdy memoir, Irish author Aidan Higgins dissects the pretensions of a Catholic family in County Kildare. He examines the mystery of growing up, his rearing on a run-down estate, the decline of a family fortune, and the wide world that he discovered in London and South Africa.

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THE BOOK: Flotsam and Jetsam is a selection of prose, some previously unpublished, written over the last thirty five years by one of Ireland's greatest writers. It includes work adapted from earlier novels, short stories and radio plays.

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This volume completes the Higgins Bestiary. From salad love with Molly Cushen to a young American wife in Spain and the Jacaranda Street tease in Johannesburg, Higgins is obsessed with the terrain of lost or thwarted love.

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'Tired of walking in the dream I have returned to the country where I was born half a century ago' - The Higgins family is now dispersed; ' he finds this problematical peace, sharing a bungalow near Brittas in Co Wicklow in an awkward two year tenancy with a school mistress with back back trouble.