After At Swim Two Birds, the Best of Flann (from Strabane): 'a pint of plain's your only man'
(See www.hellshaw.com/flann/pint.html)

'Is it about a bicycle?' (the book's final sentence) - well yes, a whole succession of bicycles and their role in crime and its solution by the distinctly odd policemen of O'Brien's tale, in an Ireland aslant.

Reminds me by turns of Russell Hoban's Kleinzeit and the film Being John Malkovich.
Funny, dark, dreamlike, unpredictable.

In the post to ao - enjoy!

Thanks so much! Received today. Wow that was fast. He is a mad genius this O'Brien, I can see why Joyce and Beckett liked him so. Familiar words don't seem as familiar when he orders them. Small tics of adjectives that hit some back teeth nerves. And you're right, from the little I've read, it does seem like Hoban. And its full of bicycles! I love bicycles! Thanks again for this, it looks masterful. And for the postcard, it looks lovely there. I really do have to visit.
Adam