Samuel Beckett: MORE PRICKS THAN KICKS [2010] paperback ZPHOT Was death by snakebite as

Was death by snakebite as serene as Shakespeare makes out

'A golden-age whodunnit on steroids' KIRKUS REVIEWS

Of this Mariana is certain

Don your sparkly sashes and raise your glasses

thus relinquishing all hope of a normal life

Samuel Beckett: MORE PRICKS THAN KICKS [2010] paperback ZPHOT Was death by snakebite asHis first published work of fiction (1934), More Pricks Than Kicks is a set of ten interlocked stories, set in Dublin and involving their adrift hero Belacqua in a series of encounters, as woman after woman comes crashing through his solipsism. More Pricks contains in embryo the centrifugal world of Beckett's men and women. She lifted the lobster clear of the table. It had about thirty seconds to live. Well, thought Belacqua, it's a quick death, God