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008			131022t19991967ilu b 000 1 eng
010			_a98052437
020			_a9781564782144
050	0	0	_aPR6029.N56 _bT48 1999
082	0	0	_aFIC OBR
100	1		_aO'Brien, Flann _d, 1911-1966
245	1	4	_aThe third policeman _b: a novel _c/ by Flann O'Brien ; with an introduction by Denis Donoghue
250			_a1st Dalkey Archive ed.
260			_aChampaign _b: Dalkey Archive Press _c, 1999, c1967.
300			_a209 p. _c; 21 cm.
500			_a"A Plume book."
520			_aThe 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.
650			_aMurder _v--Fiction
650		4	_aRobbery _v--Fiction
942			_cMO
999			_c271744 _d271744