- Teenage boys, Male friendship, Fiction, Gay youth
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.
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Earnest, grave, prestige and meticulous.
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- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Jamie O'Neill
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 610
- Publisher
- Barnes & Noble Digital, Simon & Schuster, Limited, Scribner
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781401499778
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