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JG Farrell in His Own Words : Selected Letters and Diaries

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Edited by Lavinia Greacen
2010
Published by: Cork University Press
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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 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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Cover

Frontmatter

Contents

pp. v

A Lost Autobiographical Voice

pp. 1-3

Threshold 1943–60

pp. 5-8

A Man from Elsewhere: France 1961–62

pp. 9-43

Life is Made Up of Separate Experiences: England and Ireland 1962–63

pp. 44-76

Works in Progress: London 1965–66

pp. 77-97

A Craving to Write Something Good: America 1966–68

pp. 98-125

Beginning to Ship Water: London 1968

pp. 126-164

Troubles (aptly named): London 1969–70

pp. 165-200

The Home Beautiful: Recognition – London 1970

pp. 201-221

Two Parts White Sahib: India and England 1971

pp. 222-252

The Rogues Gallery: the Faber and Booker Prizes 1971–74

pp. 253-290

The Singapore Grip: Singapore and London 1975–76

pp. 291-330

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

Endnotes

pp. 407-455

Index

pp. 457-464
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