Singapore Grip von J. G. Farrell (2005, Trade Paperback)
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- ISBN
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1590171365
ISBN-13
9781590171363
eBay Product ID (ePID)
43445346
Product Key Features
Book Title
Singapore Grip
Number of Pages
584 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
War & Military, General, Literary, Historical
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Empire Trilogy Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
20.2 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-030522
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"No writer has swallowed all of Singapore, from its stately colonial bungalows to its once opium-infested slums, with the verve and wit of the late J.G. Farrell, whose 1978 saga The Singapore Grip remains the great Singapore novel...Farrell's pungent aroma still fleetingly hovers over today's city...With his gentle wit Farrell captures the soul of Singapore: a polyglot Asian port, still partly under the sleepy sway of its British colonial past, and still lurching toward an uncertain future with a furious, irresistible energy." -- Time Magazine, "A brilliant, complex, richly absurd and melancholy monument to the follies and splendours of Empire." -- Hilary Spurling "[This] vivid, multi-dimensional portrait of Singapore...is a superbly constructed book, enjoyable on many different levels." -- The Sunday Times "In Singapore...Farrell makes a heroic and memorable attempt to portray and understand not only the Japanese, but also the lives of the millions of poor, oppressed, displaced and dying whose destruction came about through no fault of their own, who were swept helplessly away by the tides of commercial interest and war." -- Margaret Drabble "The author of the Booker Prize-winning The Siege of Krishnapur sets this brilliant work in Singapore in 1939, as an old English firm tries to cash in on the impending world war. A complex, often funny meditation on empire and other matters." -- Martin Levin, The Globe and Mail "No writer has swallowed all of Singapore, from its stately colonial bungalows to its once opium-infested slums, with the verve and wit of the late J.G. Farrell, whose 1978 saga The Singapore Grip remains the great Singapore novel...Farrell's pungent aroma still fleetingly hovers over today's city...With his gentle wit Farrell captures the soul of Singapore: a polyglot Asian port, still partly under the sleepy sway of its British colonial past, and still lurching toward an uncertain future with a furious, irresistible energy." --Time Magazine, "No writer has swallowed all of Singapore, from its stately colonial bungalows to its once opium-infested slums, with the verve and wit of the late J.G. Farrell, whose 1978 sagaThe Singapore Gripremains the great Singapore novel...Farrell's pungent aroma still fleetingly hovers over today's city...With his gentle wit Farrell captures the soul of Singapore: a polyglot Asian port, still partly under the sleepy sway of its British colonial past, and still lurching toward an uncertain future with a furious, irresistible energy." --Time Magazine
Dewey Decimal
823.914
Synopsis
Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn't what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strike somewhere else. His daughter keeps entangling herself with the most unsuitable beaus, while her intended match, the son of Blackett's partner, is an idealistic sympathizer with the League of Nations and a vegetarian. Business may be booming--what with the war in Europe, the Allies are desperate for rubber and helpless to resist Blackett's price-fixing and market manipulation--but something is wrong. No one suspects that the world of the British Empire, of fixed boundaries between classes and nations, is about to come to a terrible end. A love story and a war story, a tragicomic tale of a city under siege and a dying way of life, The Singapore Grip completes the "Empire Trilogy" that began with Troubles and the Booker prize-winning Siege of Krishnapur .
LC Classification Number
PR6056.A75S585 2005
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