A Long Long Way

A Long Long Way

by SebastianBarry (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 06 Oct 2005

ISBN 10: 0571231837
ISBN 13: 9780571231836
Prizes: Shortlisted for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2007 and Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2005.

Author Bio
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.