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The Third Policeman : a Novel by Flann O'Brien is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><b>The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence.</b></p> <p>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'
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Flann O'Brien
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781564782144
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Performing Arts
- Rating
- 4.02 / 5 (10,625 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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