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28%OFFFlann O'Brien - At Swim-Two-Birds - 9780141182681 - 9780141182681
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At Swim-Two-Birds

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Description for At Swim-Two-Birds Paperback. The undergraduate narrator lives with his uncle in Dublin, drinks too much with his friends and invents stories peopled with hilarious and unlikely characters, one of whom, creates a means by which women can give birth to full-grown people. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 170.

Flann O'Brien's innovative metafictional work, whose unruly characters strike out their own paths in life to the frustration of their author, At Swim-Two-Birds is a brilliant impressionistic jumble of ideas, mythology and nonsense published in Penguin Modern Classics.

Flann O'Brien's first novel tells the story of a young, indolent undergraduate, who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dubin and spends far too much time drinking with his friends. When not drunk or in bed he likes to invent wild stories peoples with hilarious and unlikely characters - but somehow his creations won't do what he wants them to. A ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141182681
SKU
9780141182681
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-10

About Flann O'Brien
Flann O’Brien was born on October 5, 1911, in Strabane, Ireland. He was a novelist and dramatist. He wrote a column for The Irish Times for 26 years under the name Myles na gCopaleen. His best known novel is At Swim-Two-Birds, which was written in 1939. It combines folklore, poetry and humor. He died in Dublin on April 1, 1966.

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