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Sebastian Barry (Author)
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Publication Date: 6 April 2006

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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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber (6 April 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0571218016
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571218011
  • Product Dimensions: 12.6 x 19.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (70 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 14,029 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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'The story grips, shocks and saddens; but most importantly refuses to be forgotten.' --The Times

'A stunning achievement... Barry has written one of the most moving fictional accounts of war that surely must rank alongside those real-life testimonies of Owen and Sasson.' --Sunday Tribune

'A deeply moving story of courage and fidelity.' --J. M. Coetzee

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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2005 - an epic and moving story of one man's war.
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82 of 82 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A book to read again 11 Aug 2006
By Patricia
Format:Paperback
I read this book a few months ago and when I finished it I felt I had to read it again to capture some of the powerful descriptions of human feelings, love, fear, confusion, betrayal, disappointment, compradeship, etc., I picked it up again last week and have enjoyed reading every page of it a second time.

In this book Sebastian Barry has dealt with a subject rarely even talked about until recently in Ireland. That is, the dilemna of 1916 when Irishmen were fighting against Britain in Dublin while at the same time Irishmen were fighting in WW1.

This is the human side of that dilemna. As Colm Toibin says on the cover of the book "This is Sebastian Barry's song of innocence and experience composed with poetic grace and eye, both unflinching and tender, for savage detail and moments of pure beauty. It is also an astonishing display of Barry's gift for creating a memorable character, whome he has written, indelibly, back into a history which continues to haunt us".
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82 of 83 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A superbly crafted novel 17 July 2006
By A. Coyle
Format:Paperback
I'm not really one for war novels but was drawn to this because of its focus on Irish soldiers fighting in the Great War against the backdrop of the Easter Rising in their own country (I'm Irish myself) and because it was nominated for the Booker Prize. I whizzed through 'The Da Vinci Code' before this (well, I thought it was about time that I knew what people were going on about) and found it a blessed relief to savour the poetic prose of Sebastian Barry's novel after the dross of Dan Brown's. Barry describes interactions and interiority with poetic insight, so much so that I re-read many passages, just to taste properly all that they had to offer. However, some of his graphic descriptions of the field of battle are stomach-churning - and so they should be. In Willie Dunne, he creates a deeply empathic character whose growing sense of out-of-placeness and disillusionment with the discourses of war build incrementally across the novel. I found the end both shocking and deeply moving. This is a superbly crafted book that I would recommend unreservedly.
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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Evokes pain and sorrow 23 Feb 2006
By B. Gudmundsson
Format:Paperback
I don't like using big words when describing books. But I think I will have to do it this time around. A Long Long Way is one of the best novels I have read in a long time. Let me explain.

I've long been interested in fiction that takes place in a war or is in someway related to a war situation. At first because of the action, but as I grew up I liked to read about how people react in a war situation. Following Willie Dunne's ordeals I felt so many pains, so many sorrows. Sebastian Barry shows great depth in describing both the conflicts of war but more importantly the agonies of war, the fear and hopes of the soldiers. I'm not a big fan of poetry. But in this case I think the fact that Sebastian Barry is a poet as well as a novelist and dramatist may explain why his style is so good, so capable of conveying emotion (mind you I haven't read any of his poetry).

A Long Long Way is perhaps the best novel I've read in a long time. If I try to categorize it as war fiction it tops all the books I´ve read recently (Doctorow's The March - good -, Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried - very good -) and war related fiction such as Gunther Grass's Crabwalk - very good - and Ismail Kadare's General of the Dead Army - somewhat disappointing.

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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars A Long Long Way
This is a great book that tell of the horrors of the first world war and how thousands of young men lost their lives in horrendous conditions. Read more
Published 24 days ago by chic
5.0 out of 5 stars A powerful read
Having read 'Birdsong', Pat Barker's 'Regeneration' trilogy, and more WW1 poetry than I care to remember, this book still proved to be something of a revelation to me. Read more
Published 1 month ago by H. Colthup
4.0 out of 5 stars Sebastian Barry
I bought this for myself and it came in good time for Christmas but I haven't read it yet - expecting it to be good.
Published 1 month ago by MR
2.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful
What an amazing.story. Funny,prosaic yet tender.This book had me hungry for every page and kept me busy in the wee small hours.
Published 3 months ago by Mrs. A. C. Craig
5.0 out of 5 stars Betrayed
It's easy to describe the First World War factually, mainly because we are all now so familiar with it, via countless documentaries, eye-witness accounts, poems and novels (notably... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Stephen Hudson
5.0 out of 5 stars What a writer!
I was given an earlier book written by Sebastian Barry, it was great, I had to seek out others. This tells the story from another perspective, just great and very heart wrenching. Read more
Published 4 months ago by J. M. Tillotson
4.0 out of 5 stars Almost a Classic
Barry's novel starts beautifully and continues with a memorable mixture of the timeless fear, sadness and camaraderie of a soldier and the specific experience of an Irishman with... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Ashencrump
5.0 out of 5 stars good
very good pleased ( i will not write words that I do not want to write even to make it 17 words)
Published 5 months ago by G. poa
5.0 out of 5 stars Willy Dunne did it for me
Frankly, reading about war would never be my first choice on a Sunday, but I'm so glad I picked up this book. Willy Dunne my little Irish hero, and the war... Read more
Published 7 months ago by stellagoodchild
4.0 out of 5 stars Good book with problems.
Of course reviews are all about peoples opinions on a subject, so thats what I will offer.

I found this book at times very hard to read because of the long tangents... Read more
Published 7 months ago by R. Wright
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