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Article: Irish revolutionary: Author Jamie O'Neill talks about being thrown out on the streets after the death of a famous love, the decade it took to write At Swim, Two Boys, and earning a place on his mother's wall. (books).(Brief Article)(Interview)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
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- July 23, 2002
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Irish author Jamie O'Neill keeps making headlines. His rapturously received new novel, At Swim, Two Boys (Scribner, $28), first made a media splash in the United Kingdom when the book snagged what was reportedly the largest advance in history for a debut Irish novel. Once overseas rights and film rights were sold, the tabloids breathlessly announced, O'Neill stood to garner some $1.5 million.
"It does give you confidence," O'Neill remarks, and he's actually sincere. His stow is wonderfully rags-to-riches: He'd spent 10 years crafting At Swim--his 200,000-word epic about Ireland's 1916 Easter rebellion--while working in a psychiatric hospital. "Night Porter ...