Troubles Winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize 1970

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Synopsis

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 fiancée 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

Book details

Edition:
2
Series:
W&N Essentials
Author:
J.G. Farrell
ISBN:
9780753829028
Related ISBNs:
9781474603423
Publisher:
Orion
Pages:
728
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2023-12-09
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2012
Copyright by:
J.G. Farrell 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
History, Literature and Fiction, Politics and Government