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  • The Third Policeman

  • By: Flann O'Brien
  • Narrated by: Jim Norton
  • Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (11 ratings)

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The Third Policeman

By: Flann O'Brien
Narrated by: Jim Norton
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Publisher's summary

Flann O'Brien's most popular and surrealistic novel concerns an imaginary, hellish village police force and a local murder. Weird, satirical, and very funny, it is read by Irish master reader Jim Norton.

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Editorial reviews

This bizarre tale, considered a modern Irish classic, is experiencing renewed attention. An unnamed protagonist and his accomplice, John Divney, commit a robbery and murder. The story suddenly falls into a fantastical, almost stream-of-consciousness, tale of time-travel, with one of the men journeying with police officers in an investigation of a missing bicycle. This complicated novel's saving grace is an unexpected ending, and Jim Norton's narration. He employs varying tones and pitches, and one of the officers' voices is a wonderful Indian-British accent with a friendly, commanding authority.Norton’s interpretation is fitting for the surrealism of the narrative and may appeal to those with a taste for the eccentric.

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Riveting

Great storytelling by a terrific narrator! I want to listen to it again and then maybe again!

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Oddly enthralling

This is my second listen through for this story and I must say, it is definitely one I had to listen to again to fully appreciate. Such an odd tale on the nature of reality with a twist at the end I did not expect.

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