A Long Long Way

Sebastian Barry

ISBN 10: 0571218008 / ISBN 13: 9780571218004

Published by Faber & Faber, London UK, 2005

About this Item

A near fine 1st impression of a paperback original in a fine dustwrapper, Signed by the Author on the title page. Reading creases to spine. Booker Shortlist 2005.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Long Long Way
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, London UK
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571218008
• ISBN 13: 9780571218004
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Booker Books

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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.

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) and The Pride of Parnell Street (2007). His novels include The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (1998), Annie Dunne (2002), A Long Long Way (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008). He has won, among other awards, the Irish-America Fund Literary Award, the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Prize, the London Critics Circle Award and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize. A Long Long Way, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Dublin International Impac Prize, was the Dublin: One City One Book choice for 2007. The Secret Scripture won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Irish Book Awards Best Novel, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award and the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Award. He lives in Wicklow with his wife and three children.