MORE PRICKS THAN KICKS PB – SAMUEL BECKETT

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.