The Complete Novels

By Flann O'Brien

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841593095
• ISBN13: 9781841593098
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Random House
• Length: 778 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 1.6" x 5.3"