A Long Long Way

A Long Long Way
First edition
Author	Sebastian Barry
Country	Ireland
Language	English
Publisher	Viking Press
Publication date	February 3, 2005
Media type	Print (Hardcover) & Paperback
Pages	292 pp
ISBN	0-670-03380-4
OCLC	57392246
Dewey Decimal	823/.914 22
LC Class	PR6052.A729 L66 2005
Preceded by	Annie Dunne
Followed by	The Secret Scripture

A Long Long Way is a novel by Irish author Sebastian Barry, set during the First World War.

Plot synopsis

The young protagonist Willie Dunne leaves Dublin to fight voluntarily for the Allies as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, leaving behind his prospective bride Gretta and his policeman father. He is caught between the warfare playing out on foreign fields (mainly at Flanders) and that festering at home, waiting to erupt with the Easter Rising.

The novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize^[1] in 2005.

In a 2009 US National Public Radio interview, author R. L. Stine stated that A Long Long Way was one of the most beautifully written books he had ever read, and gave copies of the novel to friends and family to read.

References

↑ The Man Booker Prize Archived July 23, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.

Works by Sebastian Barry
Plays	Boss Grady's Boys (1988) Prayer's of Sherkin (1990) White Woman Street (1992) The Only True History of Lizzie Finn (1995) The Steward of Christendom (1995) Our Lady of Sligo (1998) Hinterland (2002) Fred and Jane (2002) Whistling Psyche (2004) The Pride of Parnell Street (2007) Dallas Sweetman (2008) Tales of Ballycumber (2009) Andersen's English (2010)
Novels	The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (1998) Annie Dunne (2002) A Long Long Way (2005) The Secret Scripture (2008) On Canaan's Side (2011) The Temporary Gentleman (2015) Days Without End (2016)
Poetry	The Water-Colourist (1983) Fanny Hawke Goes to the Mainland Forever (1989)

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