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In this full-length biography, Greacen disentangles not only the circumstances of the novelist's death by drowning, but also the story of his life and how it informed everything he wrote.
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His gravestone, in a remote churchyard in the west of Ireland, reads simply: J.G.Farrell, novelist, 1935-1979. In recent years he has been in danger of being forgotten. But biographer Lavinia Greacen (author of the hugely acclaimed Chink, a biography of Hemingway's real-life military hero), has done a splendid job in rediscovering this most elusive of writers. After a childhood in the Far East, Farrell returned to his native Ireland and then went on to Oxford where he contracted severe polio which left a previously athletic man weakened for life--but perhaps this was also the "wound" that made him a writer. He never married but had numerous affairs, and Greacen ably traces the bewildering number of women in his life with great clarity. Farrell won the Booker Prize in 1973 for The Siege of Krishnapur, and was establishing himself as one of the most significant novelists of his time, when he died in a tragic fishing accident in Bantry Bay in 1979. The same violent summer storm would, 24 hours later, be responsible for 18 deaths in the Fastnet Race. This is a fascinating biography of a unjustly neglected novelist and will surely serve as a powerful reminder of Farrell's great and memorable talent. -- Christopher Hart
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