I had a tough time getting into this novel at first and it's a tough one to explain/review since I'm pretty sure I didn't quite "get" all of it. In rural Ireland, the narrator has committed robbery and murder with an accomplice. Then he encounters the odd policemen who at first seem inexplicably obsessed with bicycles. He is to be sent to the gallows without a trial but they have to be built first. Interspersed through the story are the theories of a scientist/philosopher De Selby who believes the earth is sausage-shaped instead of round. Atomic theory, bicycles and the existence of eternity in a house down the road all play a part in this convoluted tale. The ending is surprising...or not.
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