by John Banville, J.G. Farrell
Poor Major Brendan Archer has survived the Great War and sets off to Ireland to visit his mysterious fiancée, Angela, at the Majestic, the hotel owned by her family. Although he was sure that he had never actually proposed to Angela during the few days of their acquaintance, it was beyond doubt that...
Phenomenal! See my full review: http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2011/03/review-troubles-by-jg-farrell.html
once again a good example on reading a book at the right timing. I'm glad I simply gave up on my first try and re-read it again after reading skippy dies. It gave me more interest to the Irish history and though I didn't actually understand all the fact still I was not completely blind & appreciate ...
The Major is recovering from shell shock after fighting in World War I. During the war, he gets engaged (or does he?) to Angela, an English woman living in Ireland. The Major goes to see his fiancee and finds himself in a strange world. Angela's father owns a large run-down hotel. At the same ti...
It's been two weeks since I finished this, and the majestic hotel is still haunting my dreams, so i'm changing my rating from 4 to 5 stars.
First line - In those days the Majestic was still standing at Kilnalough at the very slim end of a slim peninsula covered with dead pines leaning here and there at odd angles.Book and audio. Blurb - Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland after the war to visit Angela Spencer - the fiancée he appear...
I expected to find Troubles hard-going, after all it is an old historical novel and they bore me, but it wore down my defences by being relentlessly amusing. A wry depiction of the bizarre lifestyle of the eccentric residents of a disintegrating hotel in a disintegrating corner of a disintegrating e...
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