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A Long Long Way: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2005 - Softcover

Buch 2 von 3: Dunne Family

Barry, Sebastian

 
9780571218004: A Long Long Way: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2005
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0571218008 ISBN 13: 9780571218004
Verlag: Faber & Faber, London, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

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 violence on a scale 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 that he must rejoin his regiment and fight until the end. Sebastian Barry renders Willie's personal struggle as well as the overwhelming consequences of war.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His plays include Boss Grady s Boys (1988), The Steward of Christendom (1995), Our Lady of Sligo (1998) and The Pride of Parnell Street (2007). His novels include The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (1998), Annie Dunne (2002), A Long Long Way (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008). He has won, among other awards, the Irish-America Fund Literary Award, the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Prize, the London Critics Circle Award and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize. 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 the Costa Book of the Year award, the Irish Book Awards Best Novel, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award and the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Award. He lives in Wicklow with his wife and three children.

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Verlag
Faber & Faber, London
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0571218008
ISBN 13 
9780571218004
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Anzahl der Seiten
292
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