Troubles - Couverture souple

Jarrell, J. G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0881842699 ISBN 13 : 9780881842692

Editeur : Carroll & Graf Pub, 1986

Synopsis

Book by JG Farrell

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

It's funny, sad and beautifully written; it's prescient, wise, original and unexpectedly eccentric. Vote JG, I say. Or even better, just read him. (Rachel Cooke OBSERVER)

Troubles has everything: great story, compelling characters, believable dialogue and big ideas. It's a book good enough to win the Booker in any year. Not just 1970. (John Crace GUARDIAN)

Like Fawlty Towers written by Evelyn Waugh (Rachel Cooke Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival, 2010)

'I can't praise this book enough. It's a good rule that reviewers should be forbidden from using the word "genius"...But it's hard to know what else to say when faced with a book like Troubles. There's no avoiding it. JG Farrell was a genius.' (Sam Jordison GUARDIAN BOOKS BLOG)

No finer work has ever been written about this transitional period in Irish history: it remains a landmark in 20th-century Irish literature, and one that deserves to win The One And Only Great Retrospective Booker. (Kevin Myers IRISH INDEPENDENT)

Troubles stands up at every stage. It has a fine beginning and a brilliant ending, and is sustained throughout by this wit, laughter and intelligence. (Tobias HIll INDEPENDENT)

meaty and magnificent¿He [Farrell] is a master at controlling pace, and his writing is satisfyingly solid. He is capable of the most vigorous farce, and then he will bring things to the knife edge of tragedy¿a fine and fitting winner. (Philip Womack DAILY TELEGRAPH)

Poignant, meticulously observed, often hilarious, it is one of the finest novels of the past 50 years. (Simon Shaw MAIL ON SUNDAY)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize

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 totters: 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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Carroll & Graf Pub
• Date d'édition: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0881842699
• ISBN 13: 9780881842692
• Reliure: Broché