This is a New York Review Book
Published by The New York Review of Books
435 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014
Copyright © 1978 by James G. Farrell
Introduction copyright © 1999 by Derek Mahon, adapted from the foreword
to J. G. Farrell: The Making of a Writer by Lavinia Greacen (Bloomsbury, 1999)
and used by kind permission of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Farrell, J. G. (James Gordon), 1935–
The Singapore grip / by J. G. Farrell ; introduction by Derek Mahon.
p. cm. — (New York Review Books classics)
1. Singapore—History—Siege, 1942—Fiction. 2. Rubber industry and trade—
Fiction. 3. British—Singapore—Fiction. 4. Strikes and lockouts—Fiction.
5. Sieges—Fiction. I. Title. II. Series.
PR6056.A75S585 2005
823'.914—dc22
2004030522