http://plaintext.bookcrossing.com/journal/4293946

The Back of the Book

Set in Dublin and ints near surrounds At Swim, Two Boys follows the year  
to Easter 1916, the time of Ireland's brave but fractured uprising against  
British rule.  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 rought diamond son of Mr Mack's old army pal.

Out at the Forty Foot, that great jut of rock where gentlemen bathe in the  
scanalous nude,t he two boys meet day after day.  There they make a pact:   
that Doyler will teach Jim to swim, and in a year hence they will swim the  
bay to the distant beacon of the Muglins rock, there to raise the Green  
and claim it for their country, and for themselves.  As Ireland sets forth  
towards her uncertain glory there unfolds a love sotry of the utmost  
tenderness, carrying the reader through the turbulence of the times like a  
full-blown sail.

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and the name of the book (I run a lot of rings).  If no preference is  
given I will assume you can ship internationally by surface/economy mail.

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