Unlevel Crossings

By Michael O'Leary

The first of the novels of Michael O'Leary's famous trilogy 'The Dreamlander Express' this is the story of the picaresque hero Patrick Mika Fitzgerald who embarks on a physical and psychological train trip. He travels from Auckland to Dunedin, New Zealand, in search of love but along the way he encounters many things he didn't count on, his journey becomes playful, outrageous and immense. O'Leary's prose, wordplay, multilingual puns provide a Maori-modernist take on Aotearoa New Zealand. Political and literary jabs add feisty humour to the book's exploration of the 'unlevel' relationships between people, between New Zealand and elsewhere. Another novel in the Irish Maori tradition.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael O'Leary
• Release date: Mar 14, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476425573

Michael O'Leary

Michael O'Leary was on the founding team of Bain Capital’s social impact fund. Previously, he invested in consumer, industrial, and technology companies through Bain Capital’s private equity fund. He has served as an economic policy adviser in the United States Senate and on two presidential campaigns. Michael studied philosophy at Harvard College and earned his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He lives in New York.