Event Listing - Literary Arts, Books, Gay
Wed Oct 8

The Center / Books Inc. Book Group Meeting

New Selection: At Swim, Two Boys

Location
Date and Time
Vince & Pete's Three Dollar Bill Cafe
1800 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94102 map
cross street: Octavia
district: Castro/Upper Market

Wed Oct 8 (7pm)

Description
Books Inc. in the Castro in association with the SF LGBT Center and Three Dollar Bill Café is pleased to announce our next Book Group selection: At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill

Set during the year preceding the Easter Uprising of 1916 -- Ireland's brave but fractured revolt against British rule -- "At Swim, Two Boys" is a tender, tragic love story and a brilliant depiction of people caught in the tide of history. Powerful and artful, and ten years in the writing, it is a masterwork from Jamie O'Neill.

Jim Mack is a naive young scholar and the son of a foolish, aspiring shopkeeper. Doyler Doyle is the rough-diamond son -- revolutionary and blasphemous -- of Mr. Mack's old army pal. Out at the Forty Foot, that great jut of rock where gentlemen bathe in the nude, the two boys make a pact: Doyler will teach Jim to swim, and in a year, on Easter of 1916, they will swim to the distant beacon of Muglins Rock and claim that island for themselves. All the while Mr. Mack, who has grand plans for a corner shop empire, remains unaware of the depth of the boys' burgeoning friendship and of the changing landscape of a nation.

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Our next Book Group meeting is Wednesday, October 8th, at 7 PM at the Three Dollar Bill Café at the LGBT Center, 1800 Market St. (@ Octavia). As always, I'd like everyone to come with any observations they may have as well as at least one question to pose to the group. Also, please come equipped with any title suggestions for our next joint venture. Hope to see you there. The Center/Books Inc. Book Group is free and open to everyone. We encourage inclusiveness and promote diversity. We meet the 2nd Wednesday of every month.