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 Remarkable debut novel tips hat to James Joyce
[Final Edition]
The Record
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Kitchener, Ont.
Like [James Joyce] with his great novel of Dublin, Ulysses, [Jamie O'Neill] has pushed the bounds with his frank sexuality. The narrow-minded and bigoted may well call for the banning of At Swim, Two Boys from schools and public libraries. That would be a huge mistake. O'Neill uses the literary technique of the interior monologue perfected by Joyce in Finnegans Wake. Perspectives shift throughout O'Neill's novel. Readers view the world through the internal and fragmented thoughts and emotions of several characters. With only this work O'Neill can take his rightful place among the great Irish writers beginning with Joyce and ending with Roddy Doyle. Read this novel, and then begin the wait for O'Neill's second. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission.
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