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Who is this about?
Poldy the horny goof and Stevie the pisshead and Molly the WAP and the chap in the brown Macintosh and Throwaway and Cashel Boyle O’Connor Fitzmaurice Tisdall Farrell and Rose of Castille and Hamlet the Dane and Everyman and Noman and Outis and Metis and Ulysses and Odysseus and the Wandering Jew and Madam Psychosis and met him pike hoses and Sinbad the Sailor and Sinbed the Sickbed and Sinbid the Tinlid and Sinbod the Greensod and Sinbud the Thinbud.

What is this about?
A shaving and remembrances of a dead mother, a history class, a blank period of time including a walk along the shore and a dead dog, an offal breakfast, a duodenal stuffing and purposeful faeces discharge newspaper in hand with trumpet accompaniment, a bath and the contemplation of the “limp father of thousands�, an advertisement, a burial, a quick stinky snack, a visit to a museum, a book hunt, some music, an acrimonious exchange with a feisty proto-alt-right antisemitic yobo, another blank period of time including a car drive, a wanking firework elicited by a lame young exhibitionist, the prolonged delivery of the English language, a set of miscellaneous genderfluid and scrotumtightening met him more foes’s, a nocturnal stroll, a “heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit�, the meeting of the wife in bed after she has been well ploughed by her lover’s “tremendous red brute of a thing�, a kiss from the husband to “the plump mellow yellow smellow melons of her rump�, and a yes.

Where does it take place?
The Martello Tower, Sandycove, 7 Eccles St, the National Library of Ireland, Bedford Row, Merchants� Arch, Wellington Quay, the Ormond Hotel, the disorderly house of Mrs Bella Cohen, 82 Tyrone St, Beaver St, a Cabman shelter, Butt Bridge, Dublin, Dubh Linn, Dyfflin, Polyphemus’s pub, Ithaca, Gibraltar.

When does it take place?
Over 24 hours, on the 16th June 1904, the same day James Joyce fell in love with Nora Barnacle.

What’s the writing style?
No style at all and all styles at once. As per the Gilbert schema: narrative (young), catechism (personal), monologue (male), narrative (mature), narcissism, incubism, enthymemic, peristaltic, dialectic, labyrinth, fuga per canonem, gigantism, tumescence / detumescence, embryonic development, hallucination, narrative (old), catechism (impersonal), monologue (female). Added to this, some legalese, medicalese, journalese and various pastiches of Roman incantations, Latin prose, Anglo-Saxon alliterative prose, Middle English, Medieval travel stories, Arthurian legend, Elizabethan chronicles, Miltonian prose, John Bunyan’s allegorical prose, Samuel Pepys’s diary, Daniel Defoe’s journalism, Jonathan Swift’s satires, Laurence Sterne’s novels, Oliver Goldsmith’s poetry, Edmund Burke’s reflections, Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s plays, Edward Gibbon’s histories, Horace Walpole gothic tales, Charles Lamb’s tales, Thomas de Quincey’s confessions, Thomas Henry Huxley’s scientific disquisitions, Charles Dickens’s novels, Walter Pater’s essays, John Ruskin’s critiques, Thomas Carlyle’s satires, various dialects and barroom slang and Rabelaisian scatology and retrospective arrangements and intrusions and self-parody.

Should I read this?
U.P.: UP to you and sonnez la cloche and Heigho Heigho and Cuckoo Cuckoo and pprrpffrrppfff.

Are there further readings?
No. Reread the damn thing or riverrun.

Is there a bonus track?
Yes.