The Troubles (Phoenix) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for The Troubles Winner of the 1970 lost Man Booker prize in 2010!
Full description- Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Published: 03 January 1998
- Format: Paperback 480 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781857990188 ISBN 10: 1857990188
- Sales rank: 5,701
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Reviews for The Troubles
J G Farrell's Troubles
Not so much a review; more a song of praise for a memorable book. In a world full of books there are few that I have bothered to read twice, because, once one knows what happens, it is usually hard to derive the same enjoyment from what one is reading for the second time. But when I last read J. G. Farrell's Troubles for the second time some years ago it seemed just as fresh and enjoyable a read. I will never forget the images of the old hotel, the conservatory with its forest of tropical plants bursting through the floor, the flock of elderly female residents and the wonderful dilapidated gardens. If it were a real place, and had not burned down, I would go and stay there in a shot. Whenever I see or read anything about the Irish civil war the image that comes to my mind is that of the major buried up to his neck on the shore with the tide incoming. What a pleasure this book was. For years I have been praising this novel (and its semi sequel The Singapore Grip, which also repaid with pleasure a second read). Praise to Mr. Farrell and regrets that he died so young. What joys his writing would have brought us if he had lived for another thirty years or more. Praise too to the judges of the lost Man Booker Prize for awarding the same to a great book. I think i will just have to read it again.
Terry Jessop, Sydney. by Terence Jessop
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