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A Long Long Way Paperback – 23 March 2016

by Sebastian Barry (Author)

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Publisher : Faber Paperback; Main edition (23 March 2016)
Language: : English
Paperback : 304 pages
ISBN-10 : 0571320236
ISBN-13 : 978-0571320233
Dimensions : 12.9 x 1.9 x 19.8 cm

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Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His novels include The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (1998), Annie Dunne (2002), A Long Long Way (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008). A Long Long Way, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Dublin International Impac Prize, was the Dublin: One City One Book choice for 2007. The Secret Scripture won several awards. It was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Wicklow with his wife and three children.

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Ron LaCroix

Some of the language was strikingly beautiful when describing something awful

Reviewed in Australia on 20 January 2018

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This book places you inside the senseless ruin of WW1 in Belgium. The only question in my mind is how the protagonist manages to stay alive until 1918 and falls to a single bullet as they follow the retreating Germans. I found the descriptions of struggling through the acres of blasted mud, the first unleashing of mustard gas on a naive battalion, the stench of death, the crawling of lice, the relentless loss of comrades to be horrifying but compelling. Some of the language was strikingly beautiful when describing something awful. Barry has made it possible to visualize the ugly nature of war and its destruction of the citizens who are forced to wage it. Hard going sometimes, but a very revealing book.

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A Eye-openning Read

Reviewed in Australia on 24 September 2017

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This is an amazing read about the horrors suffered by the foot soldiers recruited from Ireland with the promise of Home Rule at the end of the war. Following the life journey of Wille Dunne from pre-war, to recruitment and to the changing of his ideology through love and politics. A real 'unable to put down type' of read, this book will stay with you long after the last page.

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Sheila

Beautiful heart wrenching book

Reviewed in Australia on 25 June 2018

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What an amazing book. By the end I could not read more than a few pages at a time, it was so moving. I don’t feel like reading anything else, ever.

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Braxon

I really enjoyed the story line it gives you an insite into what these brave young men went through

Reviewed in Australia on 1 February 2019

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All young people today should read this book.and know they have a better life because of them.they are the true heroes.

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jenny

enthralling

Reviewed in Australia on 12 June 2014

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Like all the Barry books I have read this one was page turning and very thought provoking. as my grandfather served in the army in WW1 I found it even more interesting as it gave me a very small but amazing insight into what he may have gone thru. Loved it

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marytea13

... learnt from my husband the reason why the Irish hate the song its a long way to Tipperary but ...

Reviewed in Australia on 5 September 2015

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I learnt from my husband the reason why the Irish hate the song its a long way to Tipperary but this book gave me insight into why.

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Judith Jansz-Battersby

The lyrics and the prose were beautiful, you could hear them talking in that lilting ...

Reviewed in Australia on 28 November 2014

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The lyrics and the prose were beautiful, you could hear them talking in that lilting Irish-ness, and though it was a sad life, there was so much laughter as well. The heart of the story was beautiful, it could be a biography. It had me in tears but also laughter.
Thank you Sebastian Barry.

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Monica

Highly recommend this book

Reviewed in Australia on 15 July 2018

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Well written and very moving. Highly recommend this book.

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Excellent but disturbing.....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 August 2017

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A distressing and painful read that often seems unremitting in its dark, depressing picture of one man's war against the Germans and against his own feelings of inadequacy. There is no escape from either the misery of the battlefield or from the disappointments in his personal life. In the midst of such despair, he remains sensitive to the experiences of others, though bewildered by ideas and attitudes he finds difficult to grasp.There are few lighthearted moments, but the camaraderie of the soldiers and the affection of his siblings allow glimpses of a better life. I struggled to read through some of the battlefield descriptions and the horror will remain with me andthe almost lyrical quality of the passages describing the surrounding countryside served to emphasise the devastation that was close by. You need a strong stomach to read this through to the end knowing that it is probably all too accurate an account, but it is certainly worth doing so.

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Neil Carmichael

Splendid evocation of Irishmen at war

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 June 2017

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A book of great skill. The writing is lyrical and sensitive, without being sentimental. In many ways the book chimes with modern Ireland and it's attitudes. A people who feel strong links to England and equally a fierce independence. A simple and unquestioning soldier with simple and romantic belief in love, honesty and duty is confronted with the horror of war and an equally unsettling ambiguity of his people's role in it. It is not so much the story with its predictable ending which appeals, but the original style of writing. This book cannot avoid all the clichés of the war story genre, but certainly keeps them to a minimum. Along the way, there are some strongly poetic passages and a conjuring up of scenes both beautiful and dreadful.

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Dunroving

Moving account of life in the trenches for an Irishman

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 August 2020

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I bought this after reading "Days Without End", which I enjoyed, and which I similarly gave 4 stars. It would have been 5 stars, except I find the author's writing style a bit difficult to digest at times. Its not exactly stream of consciousness, but has a similar quality. It's a bit like overhearing a conversation in a bar and just getting the gist of it. As with the previous book, I adopted an approach of "don't sweat the small stuff" - as long as I could figure out where the story was heading, I didn't worry about having to understand everything. Even so, I occasionally had to go back over a page or paragraph to get my head around what was happening.

That is just a minor warning for those who like their prose accurate and logical. Having said that, riding the wave of emotion in the book was very engrossing. I learned a lot about how it FELT to be an Irishman fighting the Great War. I came away exhausted at the scale of devastation, both personal and at a macro level, even though I already knew it at a factual level. I found myself personally invested in the central character (Willie Dunne), and I felt pained when some of the negative events occurred to him both in the trenches and in his personal life back in Ireland.

I just realised the same author wrote "Annie Dunne", which is a tale of Willie Dunne's sister in her later life. It's already in my basket!

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colinr

Excellent story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 January 2018

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Barry is always worth reading, being a writer who offers such variety in his work. 'A Long Long Way' has a narrative that, stylistically, reminded me of Twain's 'Huckleberry Finn' - I mean, somehow Barry convinces the reader (me at least) that the author is a semi-literate participant of the turbulent events that the story recounts. Barry covers destitution in Ireland and the American Civil War, via what at first appears to be a somewhat quirky youthful employment, but is actually significant and central to the tale. It's an excellent story, in turns funny, sad, shockingly gruesome, and beautiful.

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Colleen

Harrowing, beautiful, breathtaking

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 February 2018

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A harrowing tale of war, of young Willie Dunne and his comrades in arms. A story of innocence and horror reflected in the mud and blood of Flanders. This book is a masterclass of how to use language, how to fill the reader with every emotion possible, without a single unnecessary word. Highly recommended.

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