The Singapore Grip
by J.G. Farrell
Singapore, 1939: Life on the eve of World War II just isn’t what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore’s oldest and most powerful firm. Business may be booming—what with the war in Europe, the Allies are desperate for rubber and helpless to resist Blackett’s price-fixing and market manipulation—but something is wrong. As swiftly as the police break one strike, the natives start up another; Blackett’s daughter keeps entangling herself with the most unsuitable beaus; and his partner’s idealistic son is more concerned with the League of Nations and vegetarianism than with industry.
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Condition: Very Good
Publisher: NYRB
Publication Date: 1999
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781590171363
by J.G. Farrell
Singapore, 1939: Life on the eve of World War II just isn’t what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore’s oldest and most powerful firm. Business may be booming—what with the war in Europe, the Allies are desperate for rubber and helpless to resist Blackett’s price-fixing and market manipulation—but something is wrong. As swiftly as the police break one strike, the natives start up another; Blackett’s daughter keeps entangling herself with the most unsuitable beaus; and his partner’s idealistic son is more concerned with the League of Nations and vegetarianism than with industry.
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Condition: Very Good
Publisher: NYRB
Publication Date: 1999
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781590171363
by J.G. Farrell
Singapore, 1939: Life on the eve of World War II just isn’t what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore’s oldest and most powerful firm. Business may be booming—what with the war in Europe, the Allies are desperate for rubber and helpless to resist Blackett’s price-fixing and market manipulation—but something is wrong. As swiftly as the police break one strike, the natives start up another; Blackett’s daughter keeps entangling herself with the most unsuitable beaus; and his partner’s idealistic son is more concerned with the League of Nations and vegetarianism than with industry.
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Condition: Very Good
Publisher: NYRB
Publication Date: 1999
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781590171363