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Finbar's Hotel Paperback – 8 January 1999

by Dermot Bolger (Author)

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'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

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Publisher : Picador (8 January 1999)
Language : English
Paperback : 288 pages
ISBN-10 : 0330370073
ISBN-13 : 978-0330370073
Dimensions : 13 x 1.8 x 19.7 cm

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Copper

A good variety of Irish short story literature spoiled.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 November 2019

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Bought this after reading Star of the Sea which was excellent - but was very disappointed by the liberal unnecessary use of the F swearword. Many of us are tired of bad language always being excused by the 'need to make it authentic' cry
instead of being honest that it is just a money making attempt to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Rather than pass it on , I put in the only place suitable for such rubbish - the Bin!

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KeithP

Star rating due to delivery, condition and price

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 January 2020

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Arrived on time, in condition described, read it as a book club choice. Story alright star rating biased towards delivery, price and condition.

Lorraine S.

quite boring stories from different writers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 January 2021

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too much four letter words especially first page of book - didnt enhance story writing. thought stories rather unimagative.

Lyndy Lou

Quirky and Entertaining Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 February 2015

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Quirky read but I loved it - second time of reading in fact! Several different life stories in one book but the authors very cleverly link all their stories through different events happening in the hotel.

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JULES

UNUSUAL FORMAT

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 August 2016

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couldn't get to grips with this book. The format was interesting but no real story lines.

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