{"product_id":"third-policeman-9781628975772","title":"Third Policeman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Third Policeman\u003c\/em\u003e is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTold 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe last of O'Brien's novels to be published, \u003cem\u003eThe Third Policeman\u003c\/em\u003e joins O'Brien's other fiction (\u003cem\u003eAt Swim-Two-Birds, The Poor Mouth, The Hard Life, The Best of Myles\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Dalkey Archive\u003c\/em\u003e) to ensure his place, along with James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, as one of Ireland's great comic geniuses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dalkey Archive Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/19\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781628975772\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200","brand":"Flann O'Brien","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43544341381301,"sku":"9781628975772","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_f941a87f-55a3-48e8-bc67-28311aba2c91.jpg?v=1706121834","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/third-policeman-9781628975772","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}