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Troubles
Editore:
Irish Book Center, 1975
ISBN 10: 0140039732
ISBN 13: 9780140039733
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Da: Saturday Books, Dudley, Regno Unito
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Soft cover. Condizione: Good. The book retains something of its new form despite having been read, its covers straight and the pages clean. Codice articolo 1081
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Troubles
Editore:
Irish Book Center, 1975
ISBN 10: 0140039732
ISBN 13: 9780140039733
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Da: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Codice articolo G0140039732I3N00
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Troubles
Da: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Irlanda
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Condizione: Very Good. 1975. paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, tanned pages, remains very good. . . . . Codice articolo KTS0043741
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Troubles
Da: Kennys Bookstore, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
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Condizione: Very Good. 1975. paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, tanned pages, remains very good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Codice articolo KTS0043741
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Troubles
Da: Crappy Old Books, Barry, Regno Unito
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Paperback. Condizione: Good. Troubles is one of those novels that begins as a slightly eccentric comedy about an English major and a decaying Irish hotel and then quietly evolves into something far stranger, sadder and more brilliant. J.G. Farrell takes the crumbling end of the British Empire and filters it through peeling wallpaper, awkward social encounters and the growing suspicion that absolutely everything is falling apart simultaneously. Which, as it turns out, is excellent material for fiction. Published here in a 1982 Penguin edition, Troubles drops the reader into the Majestic Hotel in County Wexford during the years surrounding the Irish War of Independence. The hotel itself may be one of the great characters in modern literature: vast, faded, overcrowded with ancient ladies, slowly collapsing into dust and confusion while everybody inside pretends things are fundamentally under control. In other words, a perfect metaphor for empire. Poor Major Brendan Archer arrives expecting perhaps a romantic engagement and some manageable social discomfort. Instead he finds himself trapped inside a sort of surreal Anglo-Irish fever dream populated by decaying gentility, endless confusion and a building that appears to be physically surrendering to vegetation in real time. Farrell is extraordinary at this kind of comedy. The humour in Troubles is deeply dry, slightly absurd and permanently haunted by catastrophe waiting somewhere just outside the frame. People discuss trivial inconveniences while history sharpens knives in the background. The result is hilarious right up until it suddenly becomes deeply melancholy. The novel also contains some of the finest descriptions ever written about institutional decline. Carpets rot. Ceilings sag. Cats multiply mysteriously. Entire rooms drift out of practical existence. Reading it feels rather like wandering through the final days of a civilisation maintained entirely by denial and weak tea. And naturally, because this is British literature, everybody continues attempting proper manners throughout. What makes Troubles especially wonderful now is how modern it feels despite being soaked in historical atmosphere. The sense of systems deteriorating while people cling desperately to routine feels perpetually relevant. Farrell understood that collapse rarely arrives dramatically at first. Often it looks like administrative confusion, leaking roofs and somebody insisting things were much better before. This 1982 Penguin edition is exactly the right format for the novel. A proper literary paperback from the era when intelligent fiction lived comfortably beside ashtrays, pub lunches and mildly intimidating university bookshelves. Condition is Good, meaning this copy has survived admirably despite decades of probable ownership by readers who liked words such as ?elegiac? and occasionally stared moodily out of train windows. ISBN 0140039732 is included for those who enjoy bureaucratic certainty, unlike almost everyone inhabiting the Majestic Hotel. A magnificent tragicomic masterpiece about decline, delusion and imperial decay, wrapped in a satisfyingly worn Penguin paperback. Funny, haunting and quietly devastating, like overhearing civilisation apologising politely while sinking into the wallpaper. THIS BOOK BEARS THE CRAPPY OLD BOOKS STAMP. IF THAT IS UNDESIRABLE PLEASE DO NOT BUY THIS. THE STAMP MARKS WHICH IS USUALLY TO THE FRONT AND BACK INNER PAGES SAYS SOLD BY CRAPPY OLD BOOKS WITH WEB SITE URL. IT IN NO WAY DEMINISHED FROM THE READING. IF YOU WANT A PRISTINE BOOK, PLEASE FIND ANOTHER BOOK IN BETTER CONDITION SOMEWHERE ELSE. Codice articolo 6545
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Da: Sell Books, Elland, YORKS, Regno Unito
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paperback. Condizione: Acceptable. Water damage to book. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Codice articolo SBAB-mon0000062532
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Troubles
Da: Studibuch, Stuttgart, Germania
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paperback. Condizione: Gut. 416 Seiten; 9780140039733.3 Gewicht in Gramm: 500. Codice articolo 990557
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Da: Sell Books, Elland, YORKS, Regno Unito
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