A Long Long Way: A Novel - Hardcover

Barry, Sebastian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670033804 ISBN 13: 9780670033805

Publisher: Viking Adult, 2005

Synopsis

Leaving behind his family in Dublin in order to join the Allied forces during World War I, eighteen-year-old Willie Dunne survives the horrors of war through his correspondences with loved ones and his friendships with fellow soldiers, but his return home is devastated by political tensions in Ireland. 20,000 first printing.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"Barry succeeds admirably in creating complex individuals who find themselves trapped in a brutal reality... Beautiful and soul-wrenching."
—Los Angeles Times

"The story grips, shocks and saddens; but most importantly refuses to be forgotten."
—The Times (London)

About the Author:

Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His plays include Boss Grady's Boys (1988), The Steward of Christendom (1995), Our Lady of Sligo (1998), The Pride of Parnell Street (2007), and Dallas Sweetman (2008). Among his novels are The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (1998), Annie Dunne (2002) and A Long Long Way (2005), the latter shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His poetry includes The Water-Colourist (1982), Fanny Hawke Goes to the Mainland Forever (1989) and The Pinkening Boy (2005). His awards include the Irish-America Fund Literary Award, The Christopher Ewart-Biggs Prize, the London Critics Circle Award, The Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, and Costa Awards for Best Novel and Book of the Year. He lives in Wicklow with his wife Ali, and three children, Merlin, Coral, and Tobias.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0670033804
• ISBN 13: 9780670033805
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 292