Synopsis
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.
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Review
Beautifully written . . . bizarre and at times macabre.
It is in capitals A Work of Art.
On nearly every page is a cry and tumult of the earth and the sea's beauty and an enormous inconsequent humor. . . . His prose achieves a richness and greedy joy practically invisible in any literary works today.
One can only say that Ralph Cusack has a giant mind. And has seen enough horror in his time to write several bibles. . . . It's the first time I've ever had to put a book down out of fear of going on to find out what's going to happen. --J. P. Donleavy
About the Author
Ralph Cusack (1912-1965) was born in Dublin. Though trained as a painter, he settled in the south of France to grow flowers for the manufacture of perfume. He wrote one novel, Cadenza, originally published in 1958.
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