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A Long Long Way Sebastian Barry

A Long Long Way By Sebastian Barry

A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry


$20,99
Condition - Very Good
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Summary

Evokes not only the camaraderie and humour of Willie and his regiment, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, but also the cruelty and sadness of war, and the divided loyalties that many Irish soldiers felt. Tracing their experiences through the course of the war, this narrative explores the events of the Easter Rising within Ireland.

A Long Long Way Summary

A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry

Told in Sebastian Barry's characteristically beautiful prose, "A Long Long Way" evokes the camaraderie and humour of Willie and his regiment, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, but also the cruelty and sadness of war, and the divided loyalties that many Irish soldiers felt. Tracing their experiences through the course of the war, the narrative brilliantly explores and dramatises the events of the Easter Rising within Ireland, and how such a seminal political moment came to affect those boys off fighting for the King of England on foreign fields - the paralysing doubts and divisions it caused them.

About Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His novels and plays have won, among other awards, the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Costa Book of the Year award, the Irish Book Awards Best Novel, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He also had two consecutive novels, A Long Long Way (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008), shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize. He lives in Wicklow with his wife and three children.

Additional information

GOR001680705
9780571231836
0571231837
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Faber & Faber
2005-10-06
304
Short-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2007 Short-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2005
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