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The Third Policeman (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Flann O'Brien (Paperback, 2007)

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A thriller, a hilarious comic satire about an archetypal village police force, a surrealistic vision of eternity, the story of a tender, brief, unrequited love affair between a man and his bicycle, and a chilling fable of unending guilt, 'The Third Policeman' is comparable only to 'Alice in Wonderland' as an allegory of the absurd.

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A masterpiece of black humour from the renown comic and acclaimed author of 'At Swim-Two-Birds' - Flann O'Brien. A thriller, a hilarious comic satire about an archetypal village police force, a surrealistic vision of eternity, the story of a tender, brief, unrequited love affair between a man and his bicycle, and a chilling fable of unending guilt, 'The Third Policeman' is comparable only to 'Alice in Wonderland' as an allegory of the absurd. Distinguished by endless comic invention and its delicate balancing of logic and fantasy, 'The Third Policeman' is unique in the English language.

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PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-139780007247172
eBay Product ID (ePID)91383913

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Book TitleThe Third Policeman (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
AuthorFlann O'brien
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year2007
Number of Pages240 Pages

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Item Width129mm
Item Weight170g

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Title_AuthorFlann O'brien
Series TitleHarper Perennial Modern Classics
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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  • by rubennico12
    18 Jan, 2017

    A creative nightmare

    I am not sure whether to recommend this book .. It is very inventive, fantastic,exasperating,hysterical,unsettling, what I imagine hell could be ! It is a philosophical dissertation about death, dreams,nightmares. Very modern in thought, yet it was written in 1940, one of these writers that he will always be ahead of his time. You could compare it in many ways to writers like Kafka,Borges,Joyce. Surreal, often irracional. You may want to stop reading the book at times, but the brilliant language , with thoughts of death, dreams, nightmares will either repelled or hypnotized you. they are central sections of the story more difficult to read and more repetitive but I found that I could only leave it for a day but want it to continue and I was all the time intrigue as to how the story would develop, I am, after a few days, still thinking about the possibilities of the end of the story. They are passages with descriptions and concerns about clouds,wind,rain,fields and the human psyche. It comes to mind Oscar Wilde when he says ' Life is a dream that keeps me from sleeping '

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  • by jane7156
    19 Apr, 2018

    The third policeman

    I bought it as a gift for my son, who enjoys authors like Richard Brautican - not sure how he feels about this one yet.

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  • by sheamymc69
    24 Jan, 2019

    The third policeman

    it''s a page turner, with never ending plot twists

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    10 May, 2025

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  • by youngtrem
    07 Jun, 2017

    Craziest book

    This is the maddest book I've ever read; and it is a classic.

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