The Third Policeman

Author: O'Brien, Flann

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 16 April 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers (HarperPerennial) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Harper Perennial Modern Classics' series.

A masterpiece of black humour from the renown comic and acclaimed author of ‘At Swim-Two-Birds’ – Flann O’Brien.

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.