At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'neill

At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'neill

Praised as a work of wild, vaulting ambition and achievement by Entertainment Weekly, Jamie O'Neill's first novel invites comparison to such literary greats as James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Charles Dickens.

Set during the year preceding the Easter Uprising of 1916--Ireland's brave but fractured revolt against British rule--At Swim, Two Boys is a tender, tragic love story and a brilliant depiction of people caught in the tide of history. Powerful and artful, and ten years in the writing, it is a masterwork from Jamie O'Neill.

Jim Mack is a naive young scholar and the son of a foolish, aspiring shopkeeper. Doyler Doyle is the rough-diamond son--revolutionary and blasphemous--of Mr. Mack's old army pal. Out at the Forty Foot, that great jut of rock where gentlemen bathe in the nude, the two boys make a pact: Doyler will teach Jim to swim, and in a year, on Easter of 1916, they will swim to the distant beacon of Muglins Rock and claim that island for themselves. All the while Mr. Mack, who has grand plans for a corner shop empire, remains unaware of the depth of the boys' burgeoning friendship and of the changing landscape of a nation.

O'Neill, Jamie: - Raised in County Dublin, Jamie O'Neill is the author of Kilbrack and At Swim, Two Boys, which won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Fiction and the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Men's Fiction. He lives in Galway, Ireland.

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ISBN 13	9780743222945
ISBN 10	0743222946
Title	At Swim, Two Boys
Author	Jamie O'neill
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Scribner Book Company
Year published	2002-03-05
Number of pages	576
Prizes	Winner of Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Fiction) 2002, Winner of Triangle Awards (Fiction-Male) 2003, Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Gay/Lesbian Fiction) 2002, Commended for Stonewall Book Award (Literature) 2003
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