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,
“... A coincidence: I wrote the first page of ‘It’ on St Patrick’s Day with Irish pipers tuning up down in the street 12 floors beneath. In the parade along 5th Avenue they carried banner portraits of Sean McDermott, Kevin Barry and, no doubt, other martyrs. I didn’t stay long because the wind was bitter, the pavement covered in slush and my bones frozen to the marrow ... ”