A Very Strange Man: A Memoir of Aidan Higgins Hopkin Alannah
A Very Strange Man: A Memoir of Aidan Higgins Hopkin Alannah This is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. They wrote steadily during most of the twenty-nine years they…
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A Very Strange Man: A Memoir of Aidan Higgins Hopkin Alannah
This is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. They wrote steadily during most of the twenty-nine years they were together, but their careers could not have been more different. When they first met - introduced one evening by the poet Derek Mahon - Alannah was an arts journalist becoming a full-time writer and Aidan, twenty-three years her senior, was a highly-regarded literary stylist, often cited as the heir to great Irish Modernist tradition.
In doing so, she provided Aidan with the most stable and productive years of his life. While Aidan, described as 'a giant of Irish literature', focussed on his highly acclaimed fiction and memoirs, Alannah prioritised work that paid the bills. These were the good times, but as Aidan's eyesight faded and dementia took hold of him, Alannah, as his sole care-giver, had to fight for the time and energy to keep her
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