The Singapore Grip (New York Review Books Classics) | J.G. Farrell

The Singapore Grip (New York Review Books Classics) | J.G. Farrell | Superb!

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	The Singapore Grip (New York Review Books Classics) J.G. Farrell NYRB Classics, 2005 - 584 pages average customer review:based on 14 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A droll & funny novel about the fall of Singapore

If you were to select a subject for a droll and howlingly funny novel, it is doubtful that the fall of Singapore would be high on your list. Nevertheless, that's what you have here! The action centers on the British expat community who, intent on their usual trivial rounds of partying and copulating, are completely oblivious to the fact that the Japs are inexorably creeping down the Malay Peninsula. The novel properly darkens in tone as the city's situation becomes obviously desperate, but it maintains its ironic tone throughout. The result is an absolute masterpiece, and I don't use that term lightly.

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Superb!

The first two-thirds of this excellent novel are a sharp, funny satire of colonial society: greedy businessmen, fierce young women out to get husbands, hapless and callow young men. After the Japanese overrun Singapore, the tone shifts with tragic force; the flimsy world of the British expats is smashed to bits and the characters violently swept away.

Novel about the fall of Singapore during WWII

An excellent novel about the plight of the British and Chinese before and during the fall of Sinapore. Meticulously researched, it fits under the genre of a non-fiction novel. Comparable in quality to Gore Vidal's "Lincoln" and Mailer's "The Executioner's Song." Simply brilliant.

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History of pre WWII-Singapore

Starts good, with a lot of details about life in S'pore in the '30s. Gets boring after a while as it eludes into warfare-tactics...

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