{"product_id":"corpus-in-the-library-alf-mac-lochlainn-9781564780683","title":"Corpus in the Library: Stories and Novellas","description":"In this collection of two novellas and seven short stories, Alf MacLochlainn comically reduces life's problems to the minute details of everyday existence. Socks, shoes, and trousers suggest perplexing difficulties: how best to put them on, the intricacies involved in keeping them on, the physical (as well as psychological) laws related to the interaction of body and clothing. All such speculations come to an absurd, crashing halt as the contemporary mind, filled with an overload of information, attempts but fails to make sense of some of the simplest, though of course complex, mundane facts of daily life. From Dublin to Central Illinois to Outer Space, MacLochlainn's stories embody the imaginative spirit of Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alf Mac Lochlainn, Alf Maclochlainn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1564780686\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781564780683\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dalkey Archive Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 151\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/18\/1996 pg. 63","brand":"Alf Mac Lochlainn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44124877193471,"sku":"9781564780683","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7756ce41-3bff-4cc8-aeff-6a6451230ec6.jpg?v=1687439343","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/corpus-in-the-library-alf-mac-lochlainn-9781564780683","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}