Troubles

J.G. Farrell

first published 1970 Irish Book Center, 1975 paperback 416 pages

New York Review Books classics

"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 fiance;e 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...

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Troubles edition · 2002 · New York Review Books · 459 pages
Troubles (Flamingo S.) paperback · 1984 · Flamingo · 448 pages
Troubles paperback · 1975 · Irish Book Center · 416 pages · 9780140039733
Troubles edition · 1971 · Knopf · 445 pages

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