The Hard Life

Name: The Hard Life
Author: Flann O'Brien

by Flann O'Brien

Comic novel of orphaned boys navigating poverty and petty crime in Dublin

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Flann O'Brien

O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan) was the supreme Irish comic novelist after Joyce, whose At Swim-Two-Birds is a dazzlingly inventive metafictional comedy. The Third Policeman, published posthumously, is a masterpiece of existential absurdism.

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