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J G Farrell in His Own Words: Selected Letters and Diaries
J.g. Farrell
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Paperback. The novelist J.G. Farrell - known to his friends as Jim - was drowned on August 11, 1979 when he was swept off rocks by a sudden storm while fishing in the West of Ireland. He was in his early forties. Had he not sadly died so young,A" remarked Salman Rushdie in 2008, there is no question that he would today be one of the really major novelists Editor(s): Greacen, Lavinia. Num Pages: 478 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 36. Weight in Grams: 776.
The novelist J.G. Farrell - known to his friends as Jim - was drowned on August 11, 1979 when he was swept off rocks by a sudden storm while fishing in the West of Ireland. He was in his early forties. Had he not sadly died so young,A" remarked Salman Rushdie in 2008, there is no question that he would today be one of the really major novelists of the English language. The three novels that he did leave are all in their different way extraordinary.A" The Siege of Krishnapur, the second of Farrell's Empire Trilogy, won the Booker ... Read more
The novelist J.G. Farrell - known to his friends as Jim - was drowned on August 11, 1979 when he was swept off rocks by a sudden storm while fishing in the West of Ireland. He was in his early forties. Had he not sadly died so young,A" remarked Salman Rushdie in 2008, there is no question that he would today be one of the really major novelists of the English language. The three novels that he did leave are all in their different way extraordinary.A" The Siege of Krishnapur, the second of Farrell's Empire Trilogy, won the Booker ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cork University Press Cork
Number of pages
478
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
478
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781859184769
SKU
V9781859184769
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About J.g. Farrell
Lavinia Greacen is author of Chink: a Biography (Macmillan, 1990) and J.G. Farrell, the Making of a Writer (Bloomsbury, 1999)
Reviews for J G Farrell in His Own Words: Selected Letters and Diaries
John Banville, in his introduction to this engrossing and haunting book, describes Farrell's loss as 'little short of a disaster for English fiction'; he is surely right. For anyone interested in what makes a person a writer, and how the life of a professional writer is lived, it is matchless-Sunday Times, Robert Harris 'A moving and memorable portrait, one ... Read more