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    612-822-4611

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The Third Policeman

The Third Policeman

O'Brien, Flann
Donoghue, Denis

Paperback

Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials

Classic FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 1628975776
ISBN13: 9781628975772
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: Aug 6 2024
Pages: 215
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

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.

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