A Long Long Way

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A Long Long Way
Author Sebastian Barry
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) War
Publisher Viking Press
Publication date Feb 3, 2005
Media type Print (Hardcover) & Paperback
Pages 292 pp
ISBN ISBN 0670033804


A Long Long Way is a novel by Irish author Sebastian Barry set during the First World War. The protagonist Willie Dunne leaves Dublin to fight for the Allies as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. He is caught between the war playing out on foreign fields and that festering at home, waiting to erupt with the Easter Rising.

The novel was short listed for the Booker Prize[1] in 2005.

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