The Singapore Grip by Jg Farrell
A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning author. Soon to be adapted for an ITV television series by the Oscar-winning playwright behind Atonement and Dangerous Liaisons, Christopher Hampton. Singapore just before the Japanese invasion in the Second World War: the Blackett family's prosperous world of tennis parties, cocktails and deferential servants seems unchanging. But it is poised on the edge of the abyss: This is the eve of the Fall of Singapore and, as we know, of much else besides. Not only the Blacketts, their friends and enemies, but many individuals are caught up in the events. Singapore at this historical watershed has never been so faithfully and passionately recreated.
One of the most outstanding novelists of his generation * Spectator *
Brilliant, richly absurd, melancholy * Observer *
Enjoyable on many different levels * Sunday Times *
A narrative of exceptional imagination and scope * Newsweek *
A fine piece of work, informative, funny tragicOne of those novels that present a whole world for the reader to inhabit * Margaret Drabble *
No writer has swallowed all of Singapore with the verve and wit of the late J.G. Farrell * Time *
His brilliant of style places him beside such masters of the modern novel as Patrick White and Saul Bellow * Olivia Manning *
Brilliant, richly absurd, melancholy * Observer *
Enjoyable on many different levels * Sunday Times *
A narrative of exceptional imagination and scope * Newsweek *
A fine piece of work, informative, funny tragicOne of those novels that present a whole world for the reader to inhabit * Margaret Drabble *
No writer has swallowed all of Singapore with the verve and wit of the late J.G. Farrell * Time *
His brilliant of style places him beside such masters of the modern novel as Patrick White and Saul Bellow * Olivia Manning *
J.G. Farrell was born in Liverpool in 1935 and spent a good deal of his life abroad, including periods in France and North America, and then settled in London where he wrote most of his novels.
Among his novels, TROUBLES won the Faber Memorial Prize in 1970 and the Lost Man Booker prize in 2010 and THE SIEGE OF KRISHNAPUR won the Booker Prize in 1973.
In April 1979 he went to live in County Cork where only four months later he was drowned in a fishing accident.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781857994926 |
| ISBN 10 | 1857994922 |
| Title | The Singapore Grip |
| Author | J G Farrell |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 1996-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 704 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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