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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. After four years of brutal trench fighting, Willie Dunne, once an eager soldier in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, is still a "long long way" from home. From Publishers WeeklyDulce et decorum est pro patria mori--that's the line from Horace (later famously quoted by war poet Wilfred Owen) that Irish poet, playwright and novelist Barry seeks to debunk in this grimly lyrical WWI novel. All rights reserved. As such, this somber novel--unlike Barry's moving previous book, Annie Dunne, whose eponymous narrator is Willie's younger sister--often lacks the nonsoldier human faces necessary to fully counterpoint the coarseness of military conflict, though its inevitably bleak conclusion is heartrending. Still, Barry lingers too long on the particulars of the battlefield--the lice, the putrid muck

With grace and power, Sebastian Barry vividly renders Willie’s personal struggle as well as the overwhelming consequences of war.. 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.Sebastian Barry's latest novel, Days Without End, will be available from Viking in January 2017. 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

For King and Country -- but for which? Roger Brunyate There have been many novels set in the trenches in World War I; this is one of the best, almost up there with Sebastian Faulks' BIRDSONG, my personal standard for the genre. What makes A LONG LONG WAY stand out is the sheer quality of its writing, and especially its Irish perspective.At the time war broke out in 1914, there was a general understanding that Ireland would be granted home rule within a few years. So young men like Willie Dunne, the son of an officer in the Dublin police, joined up to fight for King and Country with the thought of earning England's gratitude and further advancing the cause of freedom. But others had no such . Simply gorgeous writing J. Fuchs Every once in a great while I read a novel that contains such beautiful language that the subject matter is irrelevant. This is one of those. The book is about the experiences of one young, Irish man, Willie Dunne, who leaves his home and family in Dublin to go fight in World War I. It's a novel set in Flanders during World War I, but it could be just about any front in any war. There's no big overview here, no great history to be learned. It's the point of view of one teenager and his experiences. He barely understands what's happening to him but the quiet heroism of his putting one foot in front of the other and doing his duty is incre. Kathleen Gallagher said One of my favorite books, in a long life of reading. One of my favorite books, in a long life of reading. It's sad, realistic & poetically written-- I love the way Sabastian Barry uses the language of the era, shows us the horrors of war, while also revealing the love & brotherhood between the soldiers fighting for England, from Ireland. I strongly recommend this book.

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