The Singapore Grip
NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMA
$26.30
- Paperback
688 pages
- Release Date
30 November 2021
Summary
For a while he watched the butterflies which still swooped and fluttered in this little glade, impervious to the bombs that had fallen round about.
1939: Walter Blackett, ruthless rubber merchant, is head of British Singapore’s oldest and most powerful firm. And his family’s prosperous world of tennis parties, cocktails and deferential servants seems unchanging. No one suspects it - but this world is poised on the edge of the abyss. This is the eve of the Fall of Singapore.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474613941 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474613942 |
| Author: | J.G. Farrell |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 688 |
| Release Date: | 30 November 2021 |
| Weight: | 480g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 46mm |
| Series: | W&N Essentials |
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His brilliance of style places him beside such masters of the modern novel as Patrick White and Saul Bellow - Olivia Manning
One of the most outstanding novelists of his generation - SPECTATORA fine piece of work, solid, informative, funny, tragic, one of those novels that presents a whole world for the reader to inhabit - Margaret DrabbleAbout The Author
J.G. Farrell
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.
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