Langrishe, Go DownAn eminently poetic book, Langrishe, Go Down (Higgins's first novel) traces the fall of the Langrishesa once wealthy, highly respected Irish familythrough the lives of their four daughters, especially the youngest, Imogen, whose love affair with a self centred German scholar resonates throughout the book. Their relationship, told in lush, erotic, and occasionally melancholic prose, comes to represent not only the invasion and decline of this insular