{"product_id":"troubles-j-g-farrell-9781590170182","title":"Troubles: Winner of the 2010 \"Lost Man Booker Prize\" for Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Lost Man Booker Prize, this darkly hilarious book about the Irish war for independence takes place in a crumbling hotel on Ireland's west coast, a place where madness and brutality have begun to reign. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e1919: 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 fianc馥 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.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTroubles\u003c\/i\u003e is a hilarious and heartbreaking work by a modern master of the historical novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. G. Farrell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1590170180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590170182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.01h x 5.01w x 1.01d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/17\/2002 pg. 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCommonweal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/17\/2005 pg. 29\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooks \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2015 pg. 36","brand":"J. G. Farrell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44050987876607,"sku":"9781590170182","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_17e3a9cf-3222-4d67-8a20-60d0fe6322ad.jpg?v=1685010423","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/troubles-j-g-farrell-9781590170182","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}