A long long way / Sebastian Barry.

By:

Barry, Sebastian, 1955-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Faber , 2006, c2005.Description: 292 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

0571218016 (pbk.)
9780571218011 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

823 BAR

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Fiction Collection	823 BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100401828

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The powerful and moving First World War novel, shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize.

Originally published : 2005.

Excerpt provided by Syndetics

"In 1914, Willie Dunne, barely eighteen years old, leaves behind Dublin, his family and the girl he plans to marry in order to enlist in the Allied forces and face the Germans on the Western Front. Once there he encounters violence on a scale he could not have imagined and sustains his spirit with only the words on the pages from home and the camaraderie of the mud-covered Irish boys who fight and die by his side. Dimly aware of the political tensions that have grown in Ireland in his absence, Willie returns on leave to find a world split and ravaged by forces closer to home. Despite the comfort he finds with his family, he knows that he must rejoin his regiment and fight until the end. Sebastian Barry renders Willie's personal struggle as well as the overwhelming consequences of war."--BOOK JACKET.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Sebastian Barry is a playwright whose work has been produced in London, Dublin, Sydney, and New York. He lives in Wicklow, Ireland, with his wife and three children.