Jamie O'Neill: At Swim, Two Boys
- Yhteenveto
- Kategoria: muu, ei luokiteltu, alakategoria: muu, ei luokiteltu
- Materiaali: Nidottu
- Kustantaja: Scribner Book Company
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780743222952
- Lisätiedot
- Katseltu: 142 krt
- Suosituksia: 1 kpl
- Toiminnot
- Sinä suosittelet ★
- Adlibris ♥
- Antikvaari ♥
- Antikvariaatti.net ♥
Kuvaus (205 sanaa, lukemiseen kuluu n. minuutti)
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 naive 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. '