The Spacious Adventures of the Man in the Street
Will be published approx. on 17. May 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
335 pages
978-1-62897-280-1 (ISBN)
Description
In the second volume of Eimar O'Duffy's Cuanduine trilogy (the first, King Goshawk and the Birds, was reissued by Dalkey Archive in 2017), we meet the "man on the street," Aloysius O'Kennedy, an erstwhile grocer's assistant who has been transported against his will to the city of Bulnid on the planet Rathe-a kind of egalitarian paradise of which O'Kennedy wants no part. His Gulliver-like adventures among these otherworldly idealists (all recounted in great detail to his former employer the grocer, in an effort to explain his long absence from work) are the subject of this sui generis novel, which demonstrates again that Eimar O'Duffy is an Irish writer like no other.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Normal, IL
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
512 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62897-280-1 (9781628972801)
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Person
Eimar O'Duffy (1893-1935) was born in Dublin. Both a participant in and, beginning with the publication of his first novel in 1919, a critic of the Irish nationalist movement in the first decades of the twentieth century, O'Duffy devoted much of his prolific fiction writing to the satirizing of modern Irish culture.