A Long Long Way

a book

A Long Long Way

Sebastian Barry · 2005 · 292 pages

Leaving behind his family in Dublin in order to join the Allied forces during World War I, eighteen-year-old Willie Dunne survives the horrors of war through his correspondences with loved ones and his friendships with fellow soldiers, but his return home is devastated by political tensions in Ireland. 20,000 first printing.

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