The Third Policeman

The Third Policeman by O'Brien, Flann. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780452259126.

A masterpiece of black humour from the renown comic and acclaimed author of At Swim-Two-Birds -- Flann OBrien. A thriller, a hilarious comic satire about an archetypal village police force, a surrealistic vision of eternity, the story of a tender, brief, unrequited love affair between a man and his bicycle, and a chilling fable of unending guilt, The Third Policeman is comparable only to Alice in Wonderland as an allegory of the absurd. Distinguished by endless comic invention and its delicate balancing of logic and fantasy, The Third Policeman is unique in the English language.