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Soon to be adapted for an ITV television series by the Oscar-winning playwright behind Atonement and Dangerous Liaisons, Christopher Hampton.

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One of the most outstanding novelists of his generation * Spectator *
Brilliant, richly absurd, melancholy * Observer *
Enjoyable on many different levels * Sunday Times *
A narrative of exceptional imagination and scope * Newsweek *
A fine piece of work, informative, funny tragic. One of those novels that present a whole world for the reader to inhabit * Margaret Drabble *
No writer has swallowed all of Singapore with the verve and wit of the late J.G. Farrell * Time *
His brilliant of style places him beside such masters of the modern novel as Patrick White and Saul Bellow * Olivia Manning *

The Singapore Grip

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    A Paperback / softback by J.G. Farrell

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      Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 27/08/2020
      ISBN13: 9781474610254, 978-1474610254
      ISBN10: 1474610250

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Soon to be adapted for an ITV television series by the Oscar-winning playwright behind Atonement and Dangerous Liaisons, Christopher Hampton.

      Trade Review
      One of the most outstanding novelists of his generation * Spectator *
      Brilliant, richly absurd, melancholy * Observer *
      Enjoyable on many different levels * Sunday Times *
      A narrative of exceptional imagination and scope * Newsweek *
      A fine piece of work, informative, funny tragic. One of those novels that present a whole world for the reader to inhabit * Margaret Drabble *
      No writer has swallowed all of Singapore with the verve and wit of the late J.G. Farrell * Time *
      His brilliant of style places him beside such masters of the modern novel as Patrick White and Saul Bellow * Olivia Manning *

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