JG Farrell in His Own Words Selected Letters and Diaries edited by Lavinia Greacen and published by Cork University Press will be RTE Radio 1 Book on One this week.
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/thebookonone/
August 8th-August 12th, Monday - Friday, 11.13pm
The novelist J.G. Farrell – known to his friends as Jim – was drowned on August 11, 1979 when he was swept off rocks by a sudden storm while fishing in the West of Ireland. He was in his early forties. “Had he not sadly died so young,” remarked Salman Rushdie in 2008, “there is no question that he would today be one of the really major novelists of the English language. The three novels that he did leave are all in their different way extraordinary.”
John Banville, in his introduction to this engrossing and haunting book, describes Farrell’s loss as ‘little short of a disaster for English fiction’; he is surely right. For anyone interested in what makes a person a writer, and how the life of a professional writer is lived, it is matchless-Sunday Times, Robert Harris
‘A moving and memorable portrait, one that his many fans will want to have; and not only fans but, increasingly, students. [His] was an unusual voice, speculative and whimsical [and] its very timbre is audible here.’- Irish Times, Derek Mahon
Further details
http://corkuniversitypress.com/JG_Farrell_in_His_Own_Words_Selected_Letters_and_Diaries_/331/
