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At Swim, Two Boys (2001) is a novel by Irish writer Jamie O'Neill. The title is a punning allusion to Flann O'Brien 's At Swim-Two-Birds . The book is written in a stream-of-consciousness style , which has led to favourable comparisons to James Joyce .
Soup is a 1974 children's novel by American author Robert Newton Peck. It is the first book in the series. Its main characters are two boys, Robert (the narrator) and his close friend Luther, better known as "Soup". It takes place during the 1930s in a small town in Vermont, and deals with the daily lives of the main characters. Soup is a well ...
The usual theory given about the boys' deaths involves drug trafficking. The theory is that the boys were murdered after witnessing a drug drop from an airplane. [10] This drug trafficking was linked to the operations of Barry Seal and the Mena Airport in nearby Polk County. The case was profiled on the television program Unsolved Mysteries ...
The final section of the essays is devoted to a comparison of two mythological accounts of love: the stories of Orpheus and Jesus Christ. Süskind likens the two figures to each other in that both ventured into the realm of death because of their love; however, Süskind is critical of Jesus for his almost political motives and his "distance and ...
NEW YORK − Young musicians don't make love songs like they used to. At least that's what Nathan Morris, one-third of Boyz II Men, tells me.He's sitting backstage squeezing in a quick dinner ...
Maggie Smith, the two-time Academy Award-winning actor, was married twice, once to actor Robert Stephens and once to playwright Beverley Cross. Maggie' Smith's 2 husbands and their tangled love ...
The Rivers brothers, like many in the Henry Horner Homes, live with their mother, LaJoe. The boys' father, Paul, drifts in and out of the apartment; however, his income mostly supports his drug habit and alcoholism. Together, they have eight children, their first being born when LaJoe was 14.
Two boys playing with figures from the set wish to be transported to the fantasy world of Harmonia, where Prince Casio and Fantasy Man battle the evil Zorb. They arrive there only to discover that Prince Casio, the supposed hero, is cowering in fear over the immense violence and death wrought by Zorb's minions upon the Harmonians.