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The Singapore Grip: NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMA
J.G. Farrell
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'For a while he watched the butterflies which still swooped and fluttered in this little glade, impervious to the bombs that had fallen round about.'
1939: Walter Blackett, ruthless rubber merchant, is head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. And his family's prosperous world of tennis parties, cocktails and deferential servants seems unchanging. No one suspects it - but this world is poised on the edge of the abyss. This is the eve of the Fall of Singapore.
A love story and a war story, a tragicomic tale of a city under siege and a dying way of life, The Singapore Grip is a modern classic from a Booker prize-winning author.
'A brilliant, complex, richly absurd and melancholy monument to the follies and splendours of Empire' Observer
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His brilliance of style places him beside such masters of the modern novel as Patrick White and Saul Bellow - Olivia ManningOne of the most outstanding novelists of his generation - SPECTATORA fine piece of work, solid, informative, funny, tragic, one of those novels that presents a whole world for the reader to inhabit - Margaret Drabble
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