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His 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 help us all.
It is not.

More Pricks Than Kicks

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    A Paperback / softback by Samuel Beckett

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 3 June 2010
      ISBN-13 9780571244607
      978-0571244607
      ISBN-10 0571244602
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      Books by Samuel Beckett

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      His 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 help us all.
      It is not.

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