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A Long Long Way
Sebastian Barry
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Description for A Long Long Way
Paperback. Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Willie Dunne finds himself caught between the war playing out on foreign fields and that festering at home, waiting to erupt with the Easter Rising. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 236.
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One of the most vivid and realised characters of recent fiction, Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barry's highly acclaimed novel. Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, he finds himself caught between the war playing out on foreign fields and that festering at home, waiting to erupt with the Easter Rising.
Profoundly moving, intimate and epic, A Long Long Way charts and evokes a terrible coming of age, one too often ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571218011
SKU
V9780571218011
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-4
About Sebastian Barry
Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. The 2018-21 Laureate for Irish Fiction, his novels have twice won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Independent Booksellers Award and the Walter Scott Prize. He had two consecutive novels shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, A Long Long Way (2005) and the top ten bestseller The Secret Scripture (2008), ... Read more
Reviews for A Long Long Way
"'The story grips, shocks and saddens; but most importantly refuses to be forgotten.' The Times 'A stunning achievement... Barry has written one of the most moving fictional accounts of war that surely must rank alongside those real-life testimonies of Owen and Sasson.' Sunday Tribune 'A deeply moving story of courage and fidelity.' J. M. Coetzee"