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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.

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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