The title of this Irish epic refers to Flann O'Brien's brilliant comic novel AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS (1939), and the story, set in Dublin, involves the widowed Boer War veteran Arthur Mack and his adolescent son, James, who is drawn into a plot by his friend--and eventual lover--Doyler Doyle to swim to a nearby island and plant a flag in order to make a ...
After a traumatic accident, O'Leary Montagu travels to the little Irish town of Kilbrack, setting of his favorite book, a memoir by a woman named Nancy Valentine whose biography he aims to research. Among the characters he encounters there are the beautiful Livia, who wants only to enter the convent--but whose mother wants her to marry Montagu. In ...
A macabre story of obsession set in a decaying guest house. As his father slowly drinks himself to death, Nilius takes refuge in his room where he battles to keep control of his senses, frenetically making and remaking a 50,000 piece matt black jigsaw.
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 ...
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