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Publication Name
Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN
9781564782144
Book Title
Third Policeman
Item Length
8.5in
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication Year
1999
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.6in
Author
Flann O'brien
Features
Reprint
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Classics, Mystery & Detective / General
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
Number of Pages
200 Pages

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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 scientist/philosopher de Selby, he is introduced to "Atomic Theory" and its relation to bicycles, the existence of eternity (which turns out to be just down the road), and de Selby's view that the earth is not round but "sausage-shaped." With the help of his newly found soul named "Joe, " he grapples with the riddles and contradictions that three eccentric policeman present to him. The last of O'Brien's novels to be published, The Third Policeman joins O'Brien's other fiction ( At Swim-Two-Birds , The Poor Mouth , The Hard Life , The Best of Myles , and The Dalkey Archive ) to ensure his place, along with James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, as one of Ireland's great comic geniuses.

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Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN-10
156478214x
ISBN-13
9781564782144
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7038382441

Product Key Features

Book Title
Third Policeman
Author
Flann O'brien
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
Classics, Mystery & Detective / General
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
200 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Pr6029.N56t48 1999
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Edition Description
Reprint
Reviews
"By no means recently published, Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman will, nevertheless, be perpetually new. The literary equivalent of a Tesla invention, The Third Policeman is an astonishingly great book that is so intricate, so improbably effective, that one cannot tell, merely by looking, what makes it tick. The story is a strange dream-journey that at times is so substantial that the reader will find himself double-checking the thickness of the book itself, amazed that the whole thing fits in so slim a volume.... [The Third Policeman] must not be allowed to be forgotten. More images are painted in its 200 pages than in the massive Pulitzer contenders of today, more fantasy and dream than in a million pages of Tolkien or Rowling. Reading this book will actually improve your imagination, your speech, your intelligence..." --Bookslut "I first discovered The Third Policeman when someone--I don't remember who--recommended it to me, claiming it was the funniest book ever written, bar none. I would agree, if to the adjective "funniest" was added the conjunction and adjective "and scariest." I had never read anything quite like it, and now, although I have read books like it, I have never read anything of its kind (which is what? a Menippean satire?) to surpass it." --Charles Baxter, author of Saul and Patsy, on NPR "If we don't cherish the work of Flann O'Brien we are stupid fools who don't deserve to have great men. Flann O'Brien is a very great man." --Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange "This is truly a remarkable piece of work that has been likened to Alice in Wonderland but to my mind has more in common with the works of such eccentric European writers as Franz Kafka, Nikolai Gogol, Bruno Schulz, Witold Gombrowicz and Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz. . . . Who knows what he might have achieved had The Third Policeman seen the light of day in his own lifetime? The brilliance of Flann O'Brien lies not just in the wild invention he displays but the lengths he is prepared to go to." --Joe Sommerlan, The Statesman, "I first discovered The Third Policeman when someone -- I don't remember who -- recommended it to me, claiming it was the funniest book ever written, bar none. I would agree, if to the adjective "funniest" was added the conjunction and adjective "and scariest." I had never read anything quite like it, and now, although I have read books like it, I have never read anything of its kind (which is what? a Menippean satire?) to surpass it.", Nothing less than dazzling . . . maddening and dizzying . . . heady and exhilarating . . . it is literally funny as hell., If we don't cherish the work of Flann O'Brien we are stupid fools who don't deserve to have great men. Flann O'Brien is a very great man., "By no means recently published, Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman will, nevertheless, be perpetually new. The literary equivalent of a Tesla invention, The Third Policeman is an astonishingly great book that is so intricate, so improbably effective, that one cannot tell, merely by looking, what makes it tick. The story is a strange dream-journey that at times is so substantial that the reader will find himself double-checking the thickness of the book itself, amazed that the whole thing fits in so slim a volume.... [ The Third Policeman ] "must not be allowed to be forgotten. More images are painted in its 200 pages than in the massive Pulitzer contenders of today, more fantasy and dream than in a million pages of Tolkien or Rowling. Reading this book will actually improve your imagination, your speech, your intelligence..."
Copyright Date
1999
Lccn
98-052437
Dewey Decimal
823
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
John F. Byrne Irish Literature Ser.
Dewey Edition
21

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  • by panda2424
    Oct 12, 2006

    a GREAT read, ridiculous, entertaining and bewildering?

    I had heard that this book was said considered to be funny, hysterical. I call it ridiculous, completely, utterly ridiculous. It's one of those book where if I told you anything I might ruin the whole thing (so DON'T READ THE INTRODUCTION FOR THAT REASON). In brief, it talks about murder, death, existence, philosophy, a person's soul, the idea of heaven/hell, and bicycles? It's brilliantly written (like nothing I've ever read). I'll admit I only purchased this book b/c it was mentioned in the TV show, LOST, and I wanted to gain a little extra insite into the show. What I found in this book was emotions that left me with my mouth agape. It is written by an Irish and I'm not sure if it was b/c its British English (not american english) or that the author just has a fantastic way ...

  • by choosewomen
    Feb 22, 2008

    Pure Genius

    This is my favorite book of all time. I was given this book by my brother who told me that if I never read another word again I should read it from cover to cover. I understood very little of it at the time but enough to make me want to come back to it time after time. I suppose you could say that my relationship with this book is not unlike the narrators experience, never ending. I am forty eight now and I re-read it about every two or three years, and every time I find something different in the pages. I have never come across writing like this, it is unique in everyway, I have no idea how many copies i have had down the years that I can't seem to hold on to. I feel the need to spread the word when I finish reading and have to pass it on. This book should be read many many times. A word ...

  • by bluejohnl
    Dec 26, 2020

    Nice Book

    Nice book

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: thrift.books

  • by litt.nanc
    Jun 29, 2021

    Accurate

    Am struggling to keep reading it.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: shopspell

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