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At Swim, Two Boys

At Swim, Two Boys

O'Neill, Jamie

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Series: Award-Winning Fiction

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $21.00

ISBN10: 0743222954
ISBN13: 9780743222952
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: Mar 4 2003
Pages: 576
Weight: 1.07
Height: 1.31 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.12
Language: English
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.Jim Mack is a naïve 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. 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.

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