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Title: At Swim, Two Boys
Author: Jamie O'Neill
Plot Outline: Set in Dublin between 1915 and 1916, "At Swim, Two Boys" tells the love story of two Irish teenagers, Jim Mack and Doyler Doyle. The quiet, studious Jim and the outspoken, revolutionary Doyler form a pact to swim to the distant Muglins Rock on Easter Sunday, 1916, and claim it for themselves. Their burgeoning friendship and romance unfold against the backdrop of growing political turmoil leading up to the Easter Rising.
Awards and Reviews: The book won the 2002 Lambda Literary Award in the Gay Men's Fiction category and the 2002 Ferro-Grumley Literary Award. It was also nominated for the 2003 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. *Entertainment Weekly* praised it as "a work of wild, vaulting ambition and achievement". Critics have frequently compared Jamie O'Neill to Irish literary greats such as James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, and Samuel Beckett.
Genre: Fiction, Literary Fiction, LGBTQ, Historical Fiction.
Book Type: Paper Back
Year First Published: 2001
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