The Hill Station [Paperback]

J G Farrell (Author), John Spurling (Author), J. G. Farrell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1993

To the cool of the Simla hills comes a reluctant Dr McNab, with his wife and young niece. For Emily, romance is in the air. For the mysterious Mrs Forester, there is scandal brewing. And for the Bishop of Simla, rainclouds are not the only storms on the horizon...The Hill Station is the novel on which J.G. Farrell was working at the time of his tragically early accidental death. It demonstrates powerfully what a great loss to world literature this was.

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'One of the outstanding novelists of his generation' -- Spectator

About the Author

J.G. Farrell was born in Liverpool in 1935 and spent a good deal of life abroad, including periods in France and North America, and then settled in London where he wrote most of his novels. THE SIEGE OF KRISHNAPUR won the Booker Prize in 1973. In April 1979 he went to live in County Cork where only four months later he was drowned in a fishing accident.

Product Details

• Paperback: 254 pages
• Publisher: Phoenix (1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1857990862
• ISBN-13: 978-1857990867
• Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.7 x 7.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,647,701 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Hill Station by J G Farrell, July 5, 2011

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JG Farrell is a fabulous writer, with his life cut short by a fluke of an accident. I recommend you read all his books - order - not like me back to front as characters do appear again. The first in his trilogy is Troubles. Great book and move on to the other two.

4.0 out of 5 stars The Hill Station, June 5, 2011

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I became very interested in J.G. Farrell after reading his Empire Trilogy, so I bought and read the Greacen biography, which I enjoyed, and the unfinished "Hill Station," which only disappointed by being unfinished. I just wish the writer had chosen another pastime--fishing proved much too dangerous.