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OverviewIn 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 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sebastian Barry , John CormackPublisher: Blackstone Publishing Imprint: Blackstone Publishing Dimensions: Width: 14.70cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 14.50cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9798212225335Publication Date: 11 October 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Audio Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsBarry succeeds admirably in creating complex individuals who find themselves trapped in a brutal reality...Beautiful and soul-wrenching. -- Los Angeles Times The story grips, shocks, and saddens; but most importantly refuses to be forgotten. -- The Times (London) 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 creating a memorable character, whom he has written, indelibly, back into a history which continues to haunt us. -- Colm Toibin, author of Brooklyn Author InformationSebastian Barry, named Irish fiction laureate in 2018, is a playwright and author whose novels include A Long Long Way, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, as was The Secret Scripture, which was also a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, and the Irish Novel of the Year. His plays have been produced in London, Dublin, Sydney, and New York. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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