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Noel Boyle needs a new life and he has come to Dublin to find it. He dreams of transformation and renewal. But as he struggles to overcome his loneliness and to keep despair at bay, his attempts at change seem futile and almost comic. Boyle starts a relationship with Eleanor who is beguiling yet remote, playful yet serious in her suggestion that he return to England with her. Can he take the chance or will it be the excessive street-poet Fada, who by tempting him back into the violence of his past, will determine his future? Ablaze with stories of lives lived and lost, The Swing of Things is a darkly beautiful meditation on the idea of escape and what it is that keeps us tethered to the world.
Faber & Faber 2004
Translated into: Italian, Dutch, French
David Miller
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