In the five novels by Ireland's greatest comic writer we can explore the full range of his invention, from the multi-layered madness of At Swim-Two-Birds to the piercing realism of The Hard Life and the surreal logic of The Third Policeman. This is a world where bicycles listen to conversations, inventors search formethods of 'diluting' water, and characters play truant while novelists sleep; a world where spiteful fairies wreak havoc and heroes from legend blunder into suburban sitting-rooms. This is recognizably the Ireland of Joyce and Beckett - rowdy, high-spirited, by turns sensual and and cerebral -transformed by O'Brien's unique vision.
| ISBN: | 9781841593098 |
| Publication date: | 21st September 2007 |
| Author: | Flann OBrien |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 787 pages |
| Series: | Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |