from back "One of the most vivid and realised characters of recent fiction, Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barry's highly acclaimed novel. Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the The Royal Dublin Fusiliers, he finds himself caught between the war playing out on foreign fields and that festering at home, waiting to erupt with the Easter Rising. Profoundly moving, intimate and epic, A Long Way charts and evokes a terrible coming of age, one too often written out of history.

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Thank you very much, hingrald, for checking my wish list! and sending this book all the way to the Netherlands. It arrived today. It looks very interesting and I plan to read it soon.
God Jul och Gott Nytt År!

It has taken me a long long time me to start with this book; I shrank away from the war theme. Young Irishman Willie Dunne comes of age in a harsh time and in the terrible surroundings of the Great War's trenches. Back in Dublin as a soldier in the UK's army he finds himself confronted with his Irish comrades during the Easter Rising in Dublin 1916.
Can't say reading the book made me happy, but I'm impressed by Sebastian Barry's lyrical and compelling treatment of the grim reality of Willie's world.
The book will go out into the world soon.

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