A couple of footnotes from yesterday's book review:
- Other books in this series whose action takes place principally in India are Midnight's Children (mentioned, as disparagingly as ever, in the post) and A New Dominion. Minor sections of The Marriage Plot and Around The World In Eighty Days take place there as well.
- It's practically impossible to write a review of a novel involving colonial types in India attempting to retain their stiff upper lip, standards of dress and impeccable table manners in the face of artillery bombardment and the gradual destruction of the buildings they're in without making reference to this classic scene in Carry On Up The Khyber. Clearly it's not literally impossible, because I managed it, but only because, having dug out the link, I then forgot to mention it.
- J.G. Farrell is the second author with that pair of initials to feature on this blog, after J.G. Ballard. Other featurees who chose an authorial moniker comprising a pair of initials and a surname include A.L. Kennedy, J.R. Hartley, sorry, I mean L.P. Hartley, E.L. Doctorow, T.C. Boyle, J.P. Donleavy, G.B. Edwards, J.M. Coetzee, B.S. Johnson, J.D. Salinger and W.G. Sebald.
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