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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 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.
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Teenage boys, Male friendship, Fiction, Gay youth, History, LGBTQ historical fiction, Easter Rising (Ireland : 1916) fast (OCoLC)fst01352821, Stonewall Book Awards, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general, Dublin (ireland), fiction, Friendship, fiction, Ireland, history, easter rising, 1916, fictionPlaces
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At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel
February 25, 2003, Scribner
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Originally published: 2001.
Lambda Literary Award, 2002
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