TY - BOOK AU - O'Brien,Flann TI - The third policeman SN - 9780007247172 (paperback) AV - PR6029 .N56 T45 2007 U1 - 823.912 22 PY - 2007/// CY - London PB - Harper Perennial KW - Satire KW - Fiction KW - Humorous stories KW - Humorous fiction KW - Black humor KW - Murder KW - fast KW - lcgft KW - Black humor (Literature) KW - gsafd N1 - First published in Great Britain by McGibbon & Kee, 1967 N2 - 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 ER -