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- JG Farrell in His Own Words : Selected Letters and Diaries
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Cork University Press
summary
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,” 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.”
Table of Contents
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- Threshold 1943–60
- pp. 5-8
- Works in Progress: London 1965–66
- pp. 77-97
- Beginning to Ship Water: London 1968
- pp. 126-164
- Troubles (aptly named): London 1969–70
- pp. 165-200
- Battling On: London 1977–March 1979
- pp. 331-355
- Life is Bliss Here: May–August 1979
- pp. 356-382
- Postscript
- pp. 383-384
- A Disused Shed in Co.Wexford
- pp. 385-386
- Chronology
- pp. 387-390
- The Correspondents
- pp. 391-406
Additional Information
ISBN
9781908634047
Related ISBN(s)
9781859184769
MARC Record
OCLC
794700725
Pages
478
Launched on MUSE
2012-02-08
Language
English
Open Access
No