In Transit (Irish Literature Series)
Book Details
Author(s)Brigid Brophy
PublisherDalkey Archive Press
ISBN / ASIN1564783235
ISBN-139781564783233
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank736,274
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Set in an airport ("one of the rare places where twentieth-century design is happy with its own style"), In Transit is a textual labyrinth centering on a contemporary traveller. Waiting for a flight, Evelyn Hillary O'Rooley suffers from uncertainty about his/her gender, provoking him/her to perform a series of unsuccessful, yet hilarious, philosophical and anatomical tests. Brigid Brophy surrounds the kernel of this plot with an unrelenting stream of puns, word games, metafictional moments and surreal situations (like a lesbian revolution in the baggage claim area) that challenge the reader's preconceptions about life and fiction and that remain endlessly entertaining.
