~ The Irish contemporary classic in a beautiful new edition ~
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.
One of the greatest Irish novels ever written David Marcus
The music of Jamie O Neill s prose creates a new Irish symphony Peter Ackroyd
Heartachingly beautiful Independent on Sunday
A vivid picture of human freedom Sunday Times
About the Author
Jamie O Neill was brought up in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin. He spent ten years working as a night porter whilst writing AT SWIM, TWO BOYS.
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