Summary
WINNER OF THE 1970 BOOKER PRIZE
‘And so at the Majestic everything returned to the way it had been before. The gleaming tiles became dulled. Sofas as sleek as prize cattle lost their glow.’
1919, the Majestic Hotel in Kinalough, Ireland. Haunted war veteran Major Brendan Archer arrives to marry Angela Spencer, daughter of the house. But his fiancee is strangely altered, and her family’s fortunes have suffered a spectacular decline.
The hotel’s hundreds of rooms are dis…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474603423 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474603424 |
| Author: | J.G. Farrell |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 30 November 2021 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 32mm |
| Series: | W&N Essentials |
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Like Fawlty Towers written by Evelyn Waugh
Farrell’s vision and voice are unique, inimitable
About The Author
J.G. Farrell
J.G. Farrell was born in Liverpool in 1935 and spent a good deal of his life abroad, including periods in France and North America, and then settled in London where he wrote most of his novels. In April 1979 he went to live in County Cork where only four months later he was drowned in a fishing accident.
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