- World War, 1914-1918, Family-owned business enterprises, Fiction, Hotels
"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.
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Classical in form, meticulous and prestige.
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- James Gordon Farrell
- First published
- 1970
- Pages
- 446
- Publisher
- Flamingo, Knopf, New York Review Books
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780224619004
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“IN THOSE days the Majestic was still standing in Kilnalough at the very end of a slim peninsula covered with dead pines leaning here and there at odd angles.”
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