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Troubles (New York Review Books Classics)
Troubles - New York Review Books Classics
Author: J. G. Farrell
Major Brendan Archer returns from the Great War to claim his fiancee, whose family owns the Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough, Ireland. She is strangely altered, however, along with the hotel, which is in spectacular decline — cats roam its upper stories, the Palm Court is a jungle, and the last guests are little old ladies with nowhere else to ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9781590170182
ISBN-10: 1590170180
Publication Date: 10/31/2002
Pages: 512
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Publisher: New York Review of Books
Book Type: Paperback
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Both hilarious and in parts, heartbreaking, this book is by a master in storytelling. It is 1919, and a Irish Major goes home to his once wealty fincee. The family hotel, like the British Empire is crumbling. What follow is almost a satire on the fall of the British Empire.
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