{"product_id":"brigid-brophy-in-transit-hackenfellers-ape","title":"Brigid Brophy Bundle: In Transit \u0026 Hackenfeller's Ape","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Brigid Brophy\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Brigid Brophy bundle will include \u003cem\u003eIn Transit\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHackenfeller's Ape\u003c\/em\u003e. Get Brophy's groundbreaking, gender-bending, postmodern masterpiece as a Dalkey Archive Essential and her delightful first novel (now available in the US effectively for the first time) together at a reduced price. See below for more details on each.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout \u003cem\u003eIn Transit\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback: \u003c\/strong\u003e9781628976717\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 13th, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA gender-bending satire from one of Ireland’s most brilliant and outspoken writers, as fresh and thought-provoking today as it was on its original publication in 1969.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet in an airport lounge, \u003cem\u003eIn Transit \u003c\/em\u003efollows contemporary traveler Evelyn Hillary O'Rooley who has “lost” his\/her gender, prompting him\/her to perform a series of unsuccessful, yet bizarrely hilarious, philosophical and anatomical tests to rediscover it. Divided into four symphony sections, Brigid Brophy surrounds this simple plot device with an endless stream of puns, allusions, and experiments with narrative consciousness, as our protagonist finds him-\/herself in a situation quite similar to a modern \u003cem\u003eOrlando\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWidely considered the novel which catapulted Brophy to renown as a postmodern writer, \u003cem\u003eIn Transit \u003c\/em\u003eis a textual labyrinth—littered with word games, metafictional events, and surreal encounters that challenge readers’ preconceived notions of gender, identity, and reality. With a new introduction by Katherine Packert Burke, Dalkey Archive Press is thrilled to reintroduce Brophy’s relentlessly clever and prescient masterpiece to contemporary readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout \u003cem\u003eHackenfeller's Ape\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781628976731\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 13th, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA “pointed and amusing satire” (\u003cem\u003eTIME\u003c\/em\u003e) of animal rights from a trailblazing twentieth-century writer and activist.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the London Zoo, Professor Clement Derrylhyde has been studying Percy and Edwina, a pair of Hackenfeller’s Apes, for some time: serenading them with Mozart, learning their habits, hoping to witness the mating of this endangered species. Percy observes him back through the bars of his enclosure, wary of a species that is both captor and companion. When the Professor learns that the zoo has sold Percy to a government space program and that the ape is due to be launched on a one-way rocket trip in a matter of days, he teams up with a plucky young lockpick named Gloria in the hopes of securing Percy’s freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a prescient, provocative novella written almost a decade before the first animal was sent into outer space, Brigid Brophy meditates on the human tendency towards violence and self-alienation. At once fable and comedy, gallivanting heist adventure and elegant philosophical treatise, \u003cem\u003eHackenfeller’s Ape \u003c\/em\u003ereveals the human animal inside of us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrigid Brophy\u003c\/strong\u003e (1929-1995) was an Irish-English author, literary critic, essayist, and polemicist. Born in London to writer John Brophy, Brophy studied Classics at St. Hugh’s College, and was influenced by writers such as George Bernard Shaw, Evelyn Waugh, and Sigmund Freud. Alongside writing, Brophy was an avid activist who championed several types of social reform, including vegetarianism, humanism, and animal rights. 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