At Swim, Two Boys

First edition. Royal 8vo. Pp. [vi], 643. Publisher's green cloth, lettered in cream-white to spine; map endpapers. Jacket illustration by Roderick Field (priced at £17.99 to front flap).

Signed to title-page by the Author.

O'Neill's third novel. Winner of the 2002 Ferro-Grumley and Lambda Literary awards. A 2003 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award nominee. Written in a stream-of-consciousness style, the title is a punning allusion to Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds (1939). A novel of political and sexual awakening set in Dublin and its environs in the year leading up to the 1916 Easter Rising. Ten years in the writing, during quiet shifts as a night porter in a London psychiatric hospital, the £250,000 advance paid at the time by its British publisher, was the highest ever made to an Irish author. "A work of wild, vaulting ambition and achievement." –Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly