A Long Long Way
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A Long Long Way | |
Author | Sebastian Barry |
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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.