9780743207140

Book Description: Simon Schuster Ltd, United Kingdom, 2002. Paperback. Book Condition: New. New edition. 198 x 126 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. A truly original - and utterly compulsive - novel, reminiscent of MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN and A SUITABLE BOY for its scope and vitality. Set in Dublin and its near surrounds AT SWIM, TWO BOYS follows the turbulent year to Easter 1916. At its core it tells the love of two boys, Jim, a naive and reticent scholar, the younger son of foolish, aspirant shopkeeper Mr Mack, and Doyler, the dark rough diamond son of Mr Mack's old army pal. Out at the Forty Foot, that great jut of rock where gentlemen bathe in the scandalous nude, the 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 Ireland sets forth towards her uncertain glory there unfolds a love story of the utmost tenderness, carrying the reader through the turbulence of the times like a full blown sail. AT SWIM, TWO BOYS is written with great verve and mastery. It shares those elements that are the marks of all great books - the breadth of its canvas, the skill of its brush, the intensity of its subjects and, above all, the shining light of its humanity. Bookseller Inventory # LIB9780743207140

Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question

Book Description: Simon & Schuster Ltd. Paperback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, At Swim, Two Boys (New edition), Jamie O'Neill, A truly original - and utterly compulsive - novel, reminiscent of MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN and A SUITABLE BOY for its scope and vitality. Set in Dublin and its near surrounds AT SWIM, TWO BOYS follows the turbulent year to Easter 1916. At its core it tells the love of two boys, Jim, a naive and reticent scholar, the younger son of foolish, aspirant shopkeeper Mr Mack, and Doyler, the dark rough diamond son of Mr Mack's old army pal. Out at the Forty Foot, that great jut of rock where gentlemen bathe in the scandalous nude, the 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 Ireland sets forth towards her uncertain glory there unfolds a love story of the utmost tenderness, carrying the reader through the turbulence of the times like a full blown sail. AT SWIM, TWO BOYS is written with great verve and mastery. It shares those elements that are the marks of all great books - the breadth of its canvas, the skill of its brush, the intensity of its subjects and, above all, the shining light of its humanity. Bookseller Inventory # B9780743207140

Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question

Book Description: 702. Book Condition: New. Bookseller Inventory # L9780743207140

Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question

Book Description: Simon & Schuster Uk Jul 2002, 2002. Taschenbuch. Book Condition: Neu. 200x129x45 mm. - Highly acclaimed Irish fiction about the developing relationship between two boys from Dublin around the time of the Easter Rising, which has drawn favourable comparisons with Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy. 643 pp. Englisch. Bookseller Inventory # 9780743207140

Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question

Book Description: Scribner, 2002. Paperback. Book Condition: Brand New. 656 pages. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # zk0743207149

Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question

Book Description: Simon& Schuster Uk, 2002. Kartoniert/Broschiert. Book Condition: New. 200 mm x 129 mm x 45 mm. - Highly acclaimed Irish fiction about the developing relationship between two boys from Dublin around the time of the Easter Rising, which has drawn favourable comparisons with Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy.< Englisch. Bookseller Inventory # 9780743207140

Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question

Book Description: Simon & Schuster Uk Jul 2002, 2002. Taschenbuch. Book Condition: Neu. 200x129x45 mm. - Highly acclaimed Irish fiction about the developing relationship between two boys from Dublin around the time of the Easter Rising, which has drawn favourable comparisons with Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy. 643 pp. Englisch. Bookseller Inventory # 9780743207140

Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question