His Peach Stone
Christopher Tayler: J.G. Farrell, 2 December 2010
J.G. Farrell in His Own Words: Selected Letters and Diaries
edited by Lavinia Greacen.
Cork, 464 pp., €19.95, September 2010,978 1 85918 476 9 Show More
edited by Lavinia Greacen.
Cork, 464 pp., €19.95, September 2010,
“... and the writers he respected or got on with were often women: Elizabeth Bowen, Olivia Manning, Margaret Drabble, Alison Lurie. The letters from Farrell’s years of post-Booker fame are an education in the glamour of English literary celebrity. ‘I don’t want to be interfering about your azalea,’ he writes to ... ”