by SebastianBarry (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 07 Apr 2005
ISBN 10: 0571218008
ISBN 13: 9780571218004
Prizes: Shortlisted for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2007 and Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2005.