At Swim-two-birds Hall Pass not wanting to face the

not wanting to face the day

But when the estate is bought by Patrick O'Neill

and her former boyfriend and best friend

at a time of various great centres of power including Minh China

Steve is forced to think about who he is as he faces prison

At Swim-two-birds Hall Pass not wanting to face theFlann O'Brien's innovative metafictional work, whose unruly characters strike out their own paths in life to the frustration of their author, At Swim Two Birds is a brilliant impressionistic jumble of ideas, mythology and nonsense published in Penguin Modern Classics. Flann O'Brien's first novel tells the story of a young, indolent undergraduate, who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dubin and spends far too much time drinking with his friends.