At Swim Two Birds

Author : Jamie O'Neill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743222946
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At Swim, Two Boys written by Jamie O'Neill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two young men, Jim, the naive, scholarly son of a Dublin shopkeeper, and Doyler, a rough working boy, struggle with issues of political, religious, and sexual identity in the year leading up to the Easter uprising of 1916.

Author : Flann O'Brien
Publisher : Pan
ISBN 13 : 9780330241588
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Third Policeman written by Flann O'Brien and published by Pan. This book was released on 1974 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the publication of The Third Policeman, Dalkey Archive Press now has all of O'Brien's fiction back in print.

Author : William Gay
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307489868
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Provinces of Night written by William Gay and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-09-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth is finally coming home to Ackerman’s Field, Tennessee. Itinerant banjo picker and volatile vagrant, he’s been gone ever since he gunned down a deputy thirty years before. Two of his sons won’t be home to greet him: Warren lives a life of alcoholic philandering down in Alabama, and Boyd has gone to Detroit in vengeful pursuit of his wife and the peddler she ran off with. His third son, Brady, is still home, but he’s an addled soothsayer given to voodoo and bent on doing whatever it takes to keep E.F. from seeing the wife he abandoned. Only Fleming, E.F.’s grandson, is pleased with the old man’s homecoming, but Fleming’s life is soon to careen down an unpredictable path hewn by the beautiful Raven Lee Halfacre. In the great Southern tradition of Faulkner, Styron, and Cormac McCarthy, William Gay wields a prose as evocative and lush as the haunted and humid world it depicts. Provinces of Night is a tale redolent of violence and redemption–a whiskey-scented, knife-scarred novel whose indelible finale is not an ending nearly so much as it is an apotheosis.

Author : Flann O'Brien
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 162897415X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At Swim-Two-Birds written by Flann O'Brien and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-02 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along with one or two books by James Joyce, Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds is the most famous (and infamous) of Irish novels published in the twentieth century. A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birds is the story of a young, lazy, and frequently drunk Irish college student who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dublin. When not in bed (where he seems to spend most of his time) or reading he is composing a mischief-filled novel about Dermot Trellis, a second-rate author whose characters ultimately rebel against him and seek vengeance. From drugging him as he sleeps to dropping the ceiling on his head, these figures of Irish myth make Trellis pay dearly for his bad writing. Hilariously funny and inventive, At Swim-Two-Birds has influenced generations of writers, opening up new possibilities for what can be done in fiction. It is a true masterpiece of Irish literature.

Author : Flann O'Brien
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312329075
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman written by Flann O'Brien and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First appearing as columns in The Irish Times, the hilarious escapades of Keats and Chapman (based on the Romantic poet and the translator of Homer, respectively) that comprise this volume illuminate the extraordinary talent of Flann O'Brien. Labeled by the author "studies in literary pathology" the vignettes - each concluding in a terrible, bathetic pun - are the work of an extraordinarily funny mind exploring the limits of the shaggy dog story. -- Book jacket.

Author : Macedonio Fernández
Publisher : Open Letter Books
ISBN 13 : 1934824062
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Museum of Eterna's Novel written by Macedonio Fernández and published by Open Letter Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anti-novel.' It opens with more than fifty prologues-including ones addressed 'To My Authorial Persona,' 'To the Critics,' and 'To Readers Who Will Perish If They Don't Know What the Novel Is About'-that are by turns philosophical, outrageous, ponderous, and cryptic. These pieces cover a range of topics from how the upcoming novel will be received to how to thwart 'skip-around readers' (by writing a book that's defies linearity!). The novel itself, is about a group of characters (some borrowed from other texts) who live on an estancia called 'la novella''

Author : Flann O'Brien
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564781413
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hard Life written by Flann O'Brien and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comic look at Irish life. The narrator is Finbarr, an orphan raised amid the odor of good whisky and bad cooking. With a mixture of admiration and unease he watches his brother, Manus, turn into a young man of business, successful enough to move to England.

Author : Flann O'Brien
Publisher : Irish Literature
ISBN 13 : 9781628971835
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien written by Flann O'Brien and published by Irish Literature. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented gathering of the correspondence of one of the great writers of the twentieth century, The collected letters of Flann O'Brien presents an intimate look into the life and thought of Brian O'Nolan, a prolific author of novels, stories, sketches, and journalism who famously wrote and presented works to the reading public under a variety of pseudonyms. Spanning the years 1934 to 1966, these compulsively readable letters show us O'Nolan, or O'Brien, or Myles na gCopaleen, or whatever his name may be, at his most cantankerous and unrestrained. -- Publisher description.

Author : Maebh Long
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441113355
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assembling Flann O'Brien written by Maebh Long and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flann O'Brien - also known as Brian O'Nolan or Myles na gCopaleen - is now widely recognised as one of the foremost of Ireland's modern authors. Assembling Flann O'Brien explores the author's innovative and experimental work by reading him in relation to some of the 20th century's most important theorists, including Derrida, Agamben, Freud, Lacan and Žižek. Assembling Flann O'Brien offers a detailed study of O'Brien's five major novels – including At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman – as well as his plays, short stories, journalistic output and unpublished archival material. The book presents new theoretical perspectives on his works, exploring his compelling engagements with questions of the proper name, the archive, law, and desire, and the problems of identity, language, sexuality and censorship which acutely troubled Ireland's new state. Combining a wide range of contemporary theory with a sensitivity to the cultural and political context in which the author wrote, Maebh Long opens up entirely new aspects of Flann O'Brien's writings, and explores the ingenious and the problematic within his oeuvre.

Author : Flann O'Brien
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dalkey Archive written by Flann O'Brien and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1977 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wit, humor, satire, the exact fall of a Dublin syllable, the ear for the local turn, the flight of fancy that can spin into a Dublin joke or a Limerick limerick-all these are his."-The New York Times