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J.G. FARRELL

The Making of a Writer

by Lavinia Greacen

Based on her access to J.G. Farrell's family and friends, as well as his notebooks and personal correspondence, Lavinia Greacen's new biography disentangles not only the full circumstances of the novelist's death, but the story of his life and how it informed everything he wrote.

J. G. Farrell is an important and illuminating account of the making of a major writer and the moving personal story of a complicated man of great humour and brilliance.

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