| A Long Long Way Contributor(s): Barry, Sebastian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0143035096 ISBN-13: 9780143035091 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2005 Annotation: Readers meet Willie Dunne when he is still a gifted boy growing up in Dublin and follow him--through a diary and letters home--into battle during World War II where he must shoulder the unending internal damages of the war along with the hatred of his own countrymen for fighting for Britain. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | War & Military - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.18" W x 7.86" (0.46 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Cultural Region - Ireland - Sex & Gender - Masculine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Praised as a "master storyteller" (The Wall Street Journal) and hailed for his "flawless use of language" (Boston Herald), Irish author and playwright Sebastian Barry has created a powerful new novel about divided loyalties and the realities of war. Sebastian Barry's latest novel, Days Without End, is now available. 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. Dimly aware of the political tensions that have grown in Ireland in his absence, Willie returns on leave to find a world split and ravaged by forces closer to home. Despite the comfort he finds with his family, he knows he must rejoin his regiment and fight until the end. With grace and power, Sebastian Barry vividly renders Willie's personal struggle as well as the overwhelming consequences of war. |