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JG Farrell in His Own Words - Selected Letters and Diaries (Paperback)
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JG Farrell in His Own Words - Selected Letters and Diaries (Paperback)
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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,A" 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.A"
The Siege of Krishnapur, the second of Farrell's Empire Trilogy,
won the Booker Prize in 1973, and it was selected as one of only
six previous winners to compete in the 2008 international 'Best of
Booker' competition. The strength of American interest in Farrell's
books is underlined by the inclusion of all three Trilogy novels in
the Classics imprint of the New York Review of Books. Troubles won
the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010. Many of these selected letters
are written to women whom Jim Farrell loved and whom he
inadvertently hurt. His ambition to be a great writer in an age of
minimal author's earnings ruled out the expense of marriage and
fatherhood, so self-sufficiency was his answer. Books Ireland has
astutely portrayed him as 'a mystery wrapped in an enigma, a man
who wanted solitude and yet did not want it, wanted love but feared
commitment, reached out again and again but, possibly through fear
of rejection, was always the first to cut the cord.' But Farrell's
kindness, deft humour and gift for friendship reached across
rejection, which must account for why so many such letters were
kept. Funny, teasing, anxious and ambitious, these previously
unpublished letters to a wide range of friends give the reader a
glimpse of this private man. Ranging from childhood to the day
before his death, Farrell's distinctive letters have the impact of
autobiography.
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