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J. G. Farrell
This new expanded edition of the widely praised biography of the Booker Prize-winning author JG Farrell is timely. His literary achievement is still in the ascendent as proved by the posthumous award in 2010 of the 'Lost' Booker for 'Troubles' decided by international e-vote. That made him a double Booker winner and the publicity given to his renowned Empire Trilogy novels has left the general reading public wanting to know more. Lavinia Greacen has uncovered fresh material and additional photographs since the publication of the first edition shedding further light on Farrell's short life and tragic death as well as the development of his writing career. The result is a fascinating and compelling story about the man described by the latest Estudios Irlandeses as 'one of the English
language's most accomplished and enigmatic figures'. The life of the novelist J.G. Farrell (1935 - 1979) is almost stranger than fiction. He was a schoolboy sporting hero struck down by polio a dedicated writer living on a shoestring who was awarded the Booker Prize in 1973 and with his literary reputation secure and a newly-converted house on the scenic west Cork coastline he was drowned at the age of 44 while fishing from rocks nearby. This expanded biography interweaving letters and interviews from sources previously unknown tells the moving story of his peripatetic life. It ranges from his childhood in Ireland to public school and university in England; from his base in London where most of his novels took shape to extended stays in France and the United States and to periods spent in
Mexico India Vietnam and Singapore. Readers will discover that Farrell's celebrated Empire Trilogy which includes Troubles The Siege of Krishnapur and The Singapore Grip reflects his own travels and personal experiences as well as his unique wit and imagination. This biography reveals the very private man behind the celebrated literary novelist. 'After reading it' wrote Gerald Dawe Senior Lecturer in English at Trinity College Dublin 'I felt not only that I knew J.G. Farrell but that I too mourned his loss as if he were a friend.'
language's most accomplished and enigmatic figures'. The life of the novelist J.G. Farrell (1935 - 1979) is almost stranger than fiction. He was a schoolboy sporting hero struck down by polio a dedicated writer living on a shoestring who was awarded the Booker Prize in 1973 and with his literary reputation secure and a newly-converted house on the scenic west Cork coastline he was drowned at the age of 44 while fishing from rocks nearby. This expanded biography interweaving letters and interviews from sources previously unknown tells the moving story of his peripatetic life. It ranges from his childhood in Ireland to public school and university in England; from his base in London where most of his novels took shape to extended stays in France and the United States and to periods spent in
Mexico India Vietnam and Singapore. Readers will discover that Farrell's celebrated Empire Trilogy which includes Troubles The Siege of Krishnapur and The Singapore Grip reflects his own travels and personal experiences as well as his unique wit and imagination. This biography reveals the very private man behind the celebrated literary novelist. 'After reading it' wrote Gerald Dawe Senior Lecturer in English at Trinity College Dublin 'I felt not only that I knew J.G. Farrell but that I too mourned his loss as if he were a friend.'
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