A Long Long Way

Author: Sebastian Barry

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Price : $19.98 AUD
ISBN : 9780571320233
Publisher : Faber & Faber, Limited
Imprint : Faber & Faber, Limited
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Weight (g) : 0.242
Publication date : March 2016
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 19mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Availability date : March 2016
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Author : Sebastian Barry
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Language : English
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Description

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.

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A repackaged edition of A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry - shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2005 - an epic and moving story of one man's war.

Author description

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.

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