This new, expanded edition of the widely praised biography of the
Booker Prize-winning author J.G. Farrell is timely. His literary
achievement is still in the ascendent, as proved by the posthumous
award in 2010 of the Lost Booker for "Troubles," decided by
international e-vote. That made him a double Booker winner, and the
publicity given to his renowned Empire Trilogy novels has left the
general reading public wanting to know more. Lavinia Greacen has
uncovered fresh material and additional photographs since the
publication of the first edition, shedding further light on Farrell
s short life and tragic death, as well as the development of his
writing career. The result is a fascinating and compelling story
about the man described by the latest "Estudios Irlandeses" as "one
of the English language s most accomplished and enigmatic
figures."The life of the novelist J.G. Farrell (1935 1979) is
almost stranger than fiction. He was a schoolboy sporting hero
struck down by polio, a dedicated writer living on a shoestring who
was awarded the Booker Prize in 1973, and, with his literary
reputation secure and a newly-converted house on the scenic west
Cork coastline, he was drowned at the age of 44 while fishing from
rocks nearby. This expanded biography, interweaving letters and
interviews from sources previously unknown, tells the moving story
of his peripatetic life. It ranges from his childhood in Ireland to
public school and university in England; from his base in London,
where most of his novels took shape, to extended stays in France
and the United States, and to periods spent in Mexico, India,
Vietnam and Singapore. Readers will discover that Farrell s
celebrated Empire Trilogy, which includes "Troubles, The Siege of
Krishnapur" and "The Singapore Grip," reflects his own travels and
personal experiences, as well as his unique wit and imagination.
This biography reveals the very private man behind the celebrated
literary novelist. "After reading it," wrote Gerald Dawe, Senior
Lecturer in English at Trinity College, Dublin, "I felt not only
that I knew J.G. Farrell, but that I, too, mourned his loss as if
he were a friend."
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