Higgin's classic novel depicting the demise of the old order of power in Ireland. 'His masterpiece' JOHN BANVILLE.

The lights in the bus burned dim, orange-hued behind opaque bevelled glass; ranged below the luggage racks they lit up the advertisement panels with repeated circles of bilious light. A white face that never seemed to turn away was watching her in the glass. Imogen Langrishe, the youngest of four sisters, embarks on a reckless love affair with a charismatic and indigent German scholar. Her family's name has long been a byword for money, status and respectability in Celbridge, County Kildare, but the world is now changing.

"Half a century since its publication, Langrishe, Go Down remains bold, expressive and daring... It is a defining great Irish novel; in fact, it is a defining international modernist novel that resonates with dark and very human intent'" - Irish Times

"Deserves to be more widely known, not only for its extraordinary mournful beauty, but also for its apocalyptic vision of a culture's squandering and rottenness, for its throughgoing dismantling of the Irish house of fiction, and as one of the great works of European anti-authority" - TLS