{"product_id":"flann-obrien-keith-hopper-9781859184875","title":"Flann O'Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-Modernist","description":"Flann O'Brien's \u003ci\u003eThe Third Policeman\u003c\/i\u003e, completed in 1940, was initially rejected by his publishers for being \"too fantastic\", and only appeared posthumously in 1967. Since then O'Brien has achieved cult status, although critical appraisal of his work has focused almost exclusively on his first novel, \u003ci\u003eAt Swim Two Birds\u003c\/i\u003e (1939). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis groundbreaking study, first published in 1995 and now substantially revised, reconfigures O'Brien as a highly subversive writer within a rich and fertile literary landscape: indisputably Irish yet distinctly post-modern. It identifies \u003ci\u003eThe Third Policeman\u003c\/i\u003e as a subversive intellectual satire, in the cutting-edge tradition of Swift and Sterne, and situates it as one of the earliest - and most exciting - examples of post-modernist fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Keith Hopper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1859184871\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781859184875\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cork University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Keith Hopper","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45477150458111,"sku":"9781859184875","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9a633cc1-157d-4e55-a3f7-e7ccadaac3a9.jpg?v=1715919193","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/flann-obrien-keith-hopper-9781859184875","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}