THIRD POLICEMAN, THE - Harper Perennial **NEW EDITION**

Flann O'Brien is inventive, his storytelling is swift and sure, making the eccentric seem natural and the commonplace hilariousThe Times A murder 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's Adventures 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. Even with Ulysses and Finnegans Wake behind him, James Joyce might have been envious Observer Nothing less than dazzling