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Ó Tuama considers each poem's artistry and explores how its meaning can reach into our own lives

this luscious novel explores past secrets

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- The American Museum of Natural History (New York

Third Policeman 4th fiction Ó Tuama considers each poem'sThe Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. 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