Troubles

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Troubles
Authors and Contributors      By (author) J.G. Farrell
SeriesW&N Essentials
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:464
Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 128
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Historical fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9781474603423
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publication Date 5 August 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

WINNER OF THE 1970 BOOKER PRIZE 'And so at the Majestic everything returned to the way it had been before. The gleaming tiles became dulled. Sofas as sleek as prize cattle lost their glow.' 1919, the Majestic Hotel in Kinalough, Ireland. Haunted war veteran Major Brendan Archer arrives to marry Angela Spencer, daughter of the house. But his fiancee is strangely altered, and her family's fortunes have suffered a spectacular decline. The hotel's hundreds of rooms are disintegrating; its few remaining guests thrive on rumours and games of whist; herds of cats have taken over the Imperial Bar; bamboo shoots threaten the foundations; and piglets frolic in the squash court. And outside the order of the British Empire totters, as the violence of 'the troubles' mounts. 'A work of genius' Guardian

Author Biography

J.G. Farrell was born in Liverpool in 1935 and spent a good deal of his lifeabroad, including periods in France and North America, and then settled in London where he wrote most of his novels. In April 1979 he went to live in County Cork where only four months later he was drowned in a fishing accident.

Reviews

Farrell's vision and voice are unique, inimitable