{"product_id":"a-long-long-way-isbn-9780143035091","title":"A Long Long Way","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful novel about divided loyalties and the realities of war from\u003c\/b\u003e “master storyteller” (\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) Sebastian Barry, author of \u003ci\u003eOld God's Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDimly 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.\"A deeply moving story of courage and fidelity.\"—J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eDisgrace\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"A modern masterpiece.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Barry succeeds admirably in creating complex individuals who find themselves trapped in a brutal reality.\"—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wrenching...[Barry marches] bravely into the darkest, most dangerous terrain of human nature.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Nobody writers better about the trenches of the First World War than Sebastian Barry. In brutally effective prose he lays bare and celebrates the heroism of the young men whose livers were lost on the killing fields of France. His great gift is that he makes you feel he is reporting events that he's witnessed first hand.\"—Peter Sheridan, author of Everything Inch of Her \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is Sebastian Barry's song of innocence and experience, composed with poetic grace and an eye, both unflinching and tender, for savage detail and moments of pure beauty. It is also an astonishing display of Barry's gift for creative a memorable character, whom he has written, indelibly, back into a history which continues to haunt us.\"—Colm Tóibín\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lyrical...Willie Dunne's voice, like his dilemmas, has the resonance of authenticity.\"—Hew Starchan, author of\u003ci\u003e The First World War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Long Long Way\u003c\/i\u003e is one of those novels that, as you turn it over in your mind, may just stay with you a long, long time.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Denver Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eSebastian Barry\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and playwright who was born in Dublin in 1955. His plays include \u003ci\u003eBoss Grady's Boys\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Steward of Christendom\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOur Lady of Sligo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Pride of Parnell Street\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDallas Sweetman\u003c\/i\u003e. Among his novels are \u003ci\u003eThe Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAnnie Dunne,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Long Long Way\u003c\/i\u003e, the latter shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His poetry includes \u003ci\u003eThe Water-Colourist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFanny Hawke Goes to the Mainland Forever,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Pinkening Boy\u003c\/i\u003e. His accolades include the Irish-America Fund Literary Award, The Christopher Ewart-Biggs Prize, the London Critics Circle Award, The Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, and Costa Awards for Best Novel and Book of the Year. He lives in Wicklow with his wife Ali, and their three children, Merlin, Coral, and Tobias.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304505888997,"sku":"NP9780143035091","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143035091.jpg?v=1767720615","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-long-long-way-isbn-9780143035091","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}