In the tradition of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children comes an astonishingly ambitious and resonant novel that transports readers to Dublin in the year preceding the Easter uprising--a pivotal time in Irish history and in the lives of two very young men from different backgrounds.
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 na ve 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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