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J.G. Farrell in His Own Words: Selected Letters and Diaries
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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 lived to write more, assessed the Daily Telegraph obituary at the time, 'he might well have been regarded as the greatest historical novelist of his generation'. Thirty years on, with a new and younger readership, that accolade rings true. The Siege of Krishnapur , the second of Farrell's Empire Trilogy , won the ... 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 lived to write more, assessed the Daily Telegraph obituary at the time, 'he might well have been regarded as the greatest historical novelist of his generation'. Thirty years on, with a new and younger readership, that accolade rings true. The Siege of Krishnapur , the second of Farrell's Empire Trilogy , won the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cork University Press Cork
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781859184288
SKU
V9781859184288
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Ref
99-10
About Greacon
Lavinia Greacen is author of Chink (Macmillan, 1990) and J.G. Farrell, the Making of a Writer (Bloomsbury, 1999)
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