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At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien; William H. Gass (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
Hailed as the paramount expression of metafiction and Irish culture, and uproariously funny and inventive, At Swim-Two-Birds has influenced generations of writers, broadening the possibilities of what can be done in ficiton. This comic novel is the story of a loafing and inebriated Dublin-based universi ...Show more
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
"This is just the book to give your sister - if she's a loud, dirty, boozy girl." - Dylan Thomas. Flann O'Brien's first novel tells the story of a young, indolent undergraduate, who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dublin and spends far too much time drinking with his friends. When not drunk or in b ...Show more
Flann O'Brien: The Complete Novels by Flann O'Brien
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.)
In these five novels by one of Ireland's greatest comic writers, we 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'.
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
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Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: Adult
The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two-dimensional police station where, through the theories of the sc ...Show more
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