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A Long Long Way Author: Sebastian Barry

ISBN: 9780571320233 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 304 Published: 23 March 2016 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.4 Description: A repackaged edition of Sebastian Barry's 2005 Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel - an epic and moving story of one man's war.

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 written out of history.

About the Author

Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His novels include The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (1998), Annie Dunne (2002), A Long Long Way (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008). A Long Long Way, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Dublin International Impac Prize, was the Dublin: One City One Book ch...

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