At Swim, Two Boys

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9.99
book_author_name: 
Jamie O'Neill
book_type: 
Paperback
publisher: 
Simon & Schuster
published_date: 
01/07/2002
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9780743207140
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Books > Fiction > Modern & contemporary fiction
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Jamie O'Neill|Paperback|Simon & Schuster|01/07/2002
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9780743207140
Book Description: 
"Weren't you never out for an easy dip?" he asked . . . "I don't mean the baths, I mean with a pal. For a lark like." Out at the Forty Foot, that great jut of Dublin rock where gentlemen bathe in the scandalous nude, two boys meet day after day. There they make a pact: that Doyler will teach Jim to swim, and in a year, they will swim the bay to the distant beacon of the Muglins rock, to raise the Green and claim it for themselves. As a turbulent year drives inexorably towards the Easter Rising of 1916 and Ireland sets forth on a path to uncertain glory, a tender, secret love story unfolds. Written with verve and mastery in a modern Irish tradition descended from James Joyce and Flann O'Brien, At Swim, Two Boys is a shimmering novel of unforgettable ambition, intensity and humanity. 'The music of Jamie O'Neill's prose creates a new Irish symphony' - Peter Ackroyd

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