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,
“... it should have both these things – but whatever it is at the centre must be substantial like the stone in a peach and it must exist before one can ever begin to start thinking constructively. In May he decided to have a break and, on a friend’s recommendation, took a boat from Narragansett to Block Island. There he saw the charred remains of the Ocean ... ”