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Troubles

J. G. Farrell

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Troubles won the 1970 Booker Prize. 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.

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Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Year
2010
ISBN-13
9780753829028
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Irish War of IndependenceDecline of British EmpireDecay and social change

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