Finbar's Hotel - Softcover

Bolger, Dermot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330370073 ISBN 13: 9780330370073

Publisher: Picador, 1999

Synopsis

'The hotel has stood in Dublin's quays since the '20s, but its glory days have long since passed it by. It's decrepit now -- the haunt of weekend-breakers and tourists who don't know any better. Most of the guests and staff we meet are escaping from something ...The joy for the reader come from the ingenuity with which each successive writer picks up the baton, teasing unforeseen consequences from events in earlier chapters. The result is always funny and often profound' John O'Connell, Time Out 'Whoever is behind the middle-aged man facing his midlife crisis, a cat-napper trying to order an acceptable meal for his yowling victim or two sisters drunkenly disinterring their past, they all share a common sense of humour. That liking for witty one-liners, or for a contrariness which encourages a woman to tell a man picked up in the bar that she is a nun, is extremely funny' Aisling Foster, The Times 'Seven top-notch contributions and a genuine feeling of collective impulse ...the result is not merely a proper novel, seamlessly executed and with discernible themes and patterns, but a very good novel indeed ...The reader leaves Finbar's decaying premises enthusing over the state of modern Irish writing' D. J. Taylor, Spectator 'This is a very good work indeed ...You should check out -- or into -- Finbar's Hotel today' John Dunne, Books Ireland

About this title

About the Author

Dermot Bolger is a novelist, playwright and poet. He founded and edited the Raven Arts Press, Dublin, from 1979 to 1992 and co-founded New Island Books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330370073
• ISBN 13: 9780330370073
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288