A Long Long Way
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A Long Long Way
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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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| OPC | PPSQRR |
|---|---|
| Brand | Faber-&-Faber |
| Codes | 0571218016 (ISBN-10) |
| 9780571218011 (ISBN) | |
| MPN | C-20794030 |
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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. It also charts Willie's coming of age, his leaving behind of his sweetheart Gretta, and the effect the war has on his relationship with his father, a member of the Dublin Military Police and fervent loyalist. Running throughout is the question of how such young men came to be fighting in a war, and how they struggled with the events that raged around them.
Alternative names:
- Allen & Unwin A Long Long Way book Literary fiction English Paperback 304 pages
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Features
| Language version | English |
|---|---|
| Genre | Literary fiction |
| Release date (DD/MM/YYYY) | July 2006 |
| Number of pages | 304 pages |
| Written by | Sebastian Barry |
| Publisher | Faber |
| Suggested gender | Any gender |
| Book cover type | Paperback |
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