A Long Long Way - Paperback

by Sebastian Barry (Author)

A powerful novel about divided loyalties and the realities of war from "master storyteller" (Wall Street Journal) Sebastian Barry, author of Old God's Time

In 1914, Willie Dunne, barely eighteen years old, leaves behind Dublin, his family, and the girl he plans to marry in order to enlist in the Allied forces and face the Germans on the Western Front. Once there, he encounters a horror of violence and gore he could not have imagined and sustains his spirit with only the words on the pages from home and the camaraderie of the mud-covered Irish boys who fight and die by his side.

Author Biography

Sebastian Barry is a writer and playwright who was born in Dublin in 1955. His plays include Boss Grady's Boys, The Steward of Christendom, Our Lady of Sligo, The Pride of Parnell Street, and Dallas Sweetman. Among his novels are The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty, Annie Dunne, and A Long Long Way, the latter shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His poetry includes The Water-Colourist, Fanny Hawke Goes to the Mainland Forever, and The Pinkening Boy. His accolades include the Irish-America Fund Literary Award, The Christopher Ewart-Biggs Prize, the London Critics Circle Award, The Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, and Costa Awards for Best Novel and Book of the Year. He lives in Wicklow with his wife Ali, and their three children, Merlin, Coral, and Tobias.