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nwhyte's review
3.0
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I'm a huge Flann O'Brien fan, but this is not his best work. There are two jokes: the chairman of the local council, Kelly, sells his soul to the Devil, who in turn finds that the ins and outs of local Irish politics are too much for him. And there is the relationship between Kelly and Margaret, who is clearly his girlfriend, but whose very Anglicised brother returns from England to fight the election against him. There are a lot of good turns of phrase, but fans will have come across all the best bits elsewhere.
I'm a huge Flann O'Brien fan, but this is not his best work. There are two jokes: the chairman of the local council, Kelly, sells his soul to the Devil, who in turn finds that the ins and outs of local Irish politics are too much for him. And there is the relationship between Kelly and Margaret, who is clearly his girlfriend, but whose very Anglicised brother returns from England to fight the election against him. There are a lot of good turns of phrase, but fans will have come across all the best bits elsewhere.
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