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A Long Long Way

(2005)
(The second book in the Dunne Family series)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel (nominee)
Booker Prize Best Novel (nominee)
Told in Sebastian Barry's characteristically beautiful prose, A Long Long Way evokes the camaraderie and humour of Willie and his regiment, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, but also the cruelty and sadness of war, and the divided loyalties that many Irish soldiers felt. Tracing their experiences through the course of the war, the narrative brilliantly explores and dramatises the events of the Easter Rising within Ireland, and how such a seminal political moment came to affect those boys off fighting for the King of England on foreign fields - the paralysing doubts and divisions it caused them.

Genre: Literary Fiction

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