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A long long way

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. 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.

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  • "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. 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."@en
  • "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."
  • "Willie Dunne est le fils d'un policier dublinois. Un garçon doté d'une voix d'exception dans l'art de chanter. Il s'engage comme volontaire pour aller combattre dans les tranchées, malgré l'amour infini qui le lie à une jeune fille avec laquelle il désire plus que tout se marier. De la bataille de la Somme jusqu'à la fin de la guerre, il assiste à d'horribles batailles."
  • "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."
  • "Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2005 - an epic and moving story of one man's war."@en
  • "Leaving behind his family in Dublin in order to join the Allied forces during World War I, eighteen-year-old Willie Dunne survives the horrors of war, but his return home is devastated by political tensions in Ireland."
  • "Barely 18 years old, Willie Dunne leaves Dublin in 1914 to fight for the Allied cause, largely unaware of the tensions festering back home.A Long Long Way evokes the camaraderie and humour of Willie and his regiment, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, but also the cruelty of war and divided loyalties many Irish soldiers felt. Discover their experiences through the course of the war, the events of the Easter Rising and how such a political moment came to affect boys off fighting for the King of England on foreign fields.It also charts Willie's leaving behind of his Sweetheart Gretta, and the effect the war has on his relationship with his father, a member of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and a fervent loyalist."
  • ""In 1914, eighteen year-old Willie Dunne leaves behind Dublin, and everyone he loves in order to enlist in the Allied forces on the Western Front. Once there he encounters violence on a scale he could not have imagined, barely sustains his spirit with letters from home and the camaraderie of the boys who fight and die by his side. But when he returns home on leave to encounter the growing tensions over Irish independence, Willie soon finds himself confronting unbearable choices regarding family, patriotism, and duty"--Page 4 of cover."

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  • "Romans (teksten)"
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  • "History"@en
  • "Roman d'éducation"
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  • "A long long way"@en
  • "A long long way"
  • "A long long way"@it
  • "A Long, Long Way"
  • "A Long Long Way"@en
  • "Un long long chemin : roman"
  • "Ein langer, langer Weg : Roman"
  • "A Long long way"
  • "Más y más lejos"@es
  • "Más y más lejos"
  • "Een lange, lange weg"
  • "Og alt blev stille"@da
  • "Ein langer, langer Weg"
  • "A long long way : [a novel]"

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