num_pages: 292
description: 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 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 Long Way charts and evokes a terrible coming of age, one too often written out of history.
language: English
title: A Long Long Way
titlecomplete: A Long Long Way
characters: Willie Dunne
genres: Fiction, Ireland, Historical, War, World War I, Literature, Novels, Irish Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 7686
series: Dunne Family
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Dublin Literary Award
category: Shortlist
publisher: Faber and Faber