JG Farrell in His Own Words Selected Letters and Diaries
06.01.2010
JG Farrell’s book has been chosen as a must read by the Sunday Times (UK & Irish editions). JG Farrell in His Own Words Selected Letters and Diaries edited by Lavinia Greacen and published by Cork University Press in October 2009 was chosen as one of four “must read” books by The Sunday Times on January 3rd 2010.

The Sunday Times has a combined circulation of 1. 3 million copies for the UK and Ireland. The novelist J.G. Farrell 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.” The book has been well received including a review in The Sunday Times on December 13th 2009 by Robert Harris. He said “Lavinia Greacen has already written an excellent biography of Farrell, but this compilation of his letters and diaries is even better: indeed, for anyone interested in what makes a person a writer, and how the life of a professional writer is lived, it is matchless.”

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