Set in an airport ("one of the rare places where twentieth-century design is happy with its own style"), In Transit is a textual labyrinth centering on a contemporary traveller. Waiting for a flight, Evelyn Hillary O'Rooley suffers from uncertainty about his/her gender, provoking him/her to perform a series of unsuccessful, yet hilarious, philosophical and anatomical tests. Brigid Brophy surrounds the kernel of this plot with an unrelenting stream of puns, word games, metafictional moments and surreal situations (like a lesbian revolution in the baggage claim area) that challenge the reader's preconceptions about life and fiction and that remain endlessly entertaining.
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This rather odd 1970 Irish outing calls itself a "heroi-cyclic novel." Protagonist Evelyn Hillary O'Rooley, having trouble deciding on her/his gender, undertakes a series of tests while waiting at the airport for a flight. Still on the avant-garde side.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Brigid Brophy wrote nine works of fiction, including The Adventures of God in His Search for the Black Girl, The King of a Rainy Country, and The Finishing Touch. She also wrote a number of works of nonfiction, which included books on Ronald Firbank and Mozart.
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