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1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer makes his way to Ireland, hoping to discover whether he is indeed betrothed to Angela Spencer, whose Anglo-Irish family owns the once-aptly-named Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough. But his fiancée is strangely altered and her family's fortunes have suffered a spectacular decline. The hotel's hundreds of rooms are disintegrating on a grand scale; its few remaining guests thrive on rumors and games of whist; herds of cats have taken over the Imperial Bar and the upper stories; bamboo shoots threaten the foundations; and piglets frolic in the squash court. Meanwhile, the Major is captivated by the beautiful and bitter Sarah Devlin. As housekeeping disasters force him from room to room, outside the order of the British Empire also there is unrest in the East, and in Ireland itself the mounting violence of "the troubles."
Troubles is a hilarious and heartbreaking work by a modern master of the historical novel.
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Troubles
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Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1971
ISBN 10: 0394472020
ISBN 13: 9780394472027
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Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First American Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth, bright red topstain, in pictorial dust jacket by Wendell Minor retaining original price ($6.95); 445pp. Light shelf wear and spine lean, faint toning to verso of bottom jacket margins, else a Very Good or better, bright and sound copy. The first volume of the author's Empire Trilogy set during the Irish War of Independence. The work, considered one of Farrell's finest, was awarded the retroactive Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010. Seller Inventory # 30365
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Seller: Modern First Editions Boston, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Remarkable, brand New copy. Stated First American Edition. Protected by archival BrodArt cover. 446 pages; publisher's decorative red top pages, rough cut endpages. Book 1 of 3 from 'Empire Trilogy'. Seller Inventory # 001894
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