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Cadenza

First published in Ireland in 1958, this fantastic excursion of the mind, which moves between Dublin and Dundalk on a train headed for the scrap heap after fifty years, also reminds the reader of Tristram Shandy, Finnegans Wake, Ulysses, and At Swim-Two-Birds. But while Leopold Bloom is peripatetic in his Dublin Odyssey, Cusack's Desmond locks himself in train carriage 304D and orders out — sandwiches, whiskey, and beer. A brilliant tour de force melding time, place, and memory.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 232
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780916583057
  • Genres
  • ireland, novels
  • Release date
  • 1984