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    At Swim, Two Boys

    Jamie O'Neill

    607 pages

    Two young men, Jim, the naive, scholarly son of a Dublin shopkeeper, and Doyler, a rough working boy, struggle with issues of political, religious, and sexual identity in the year leading up to the Easter uprising of 1916.

    Set against the backdrop of Ireland's Easter Uprising of 1916, this tender and tragic love story beautifully captures the complexities of friendship and the impact of historical events on personal lives.