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Book Description
「ストーリーテラーの巨匠」(ウォールストリート・ジャーナル)と賞賛され、「非の打ち所のない文章」(ボストン・ヘラルド)ともてはやされたアイルランドの作家/劇作家、セバスチャン・バリーが、戦争の引き裂かれた忠誠と現実を描く、力強い小説を書いた。1914年、18歳になったばかりのウィリー・ダンは、連合軍に入隊し西部戦線でドイツ軍と戦うため、ダブリンと家族と結婚したい女の子を後にする。到着した彼が目にしたのは想像だにしなかった暴力と流血の恐怖だ。唯一の心の支えは、故郷からの手紙の言葉と、隣で戦い亡くなっていく泥まみれのアイルランドの青年たちとの友情だった。留守の間にアイルランドで高まった政治的緊張にContinue
Critics
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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From Tipperary to hell and back
There are plenty of books about the first world war, but that’s not to say there isn’t room for another. In any case, this, I think, is the first novel to take as its hero a young Irish volunteer, stepping up to fight for the Allies in 1915. Too sho ... (read full critics)
spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010
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Great book
It seems to have taken me ages to finish this book. I’ve been dipping in and out for a while now. Nothing to do with the book itself, more to do with my lack of attention, because it is a very good book. Gripping would be the cliché. But true nonetheless.
A Long Long Way tells the story of Wil ... (continue)
Dee said on Jul 19, 2007 | Add your feedback
Book Details
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- English Books
- Paperback 304 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0571218008
- ISBN-13: 9780571218004
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Pub date: Jan 01, 2005
- Dimensions: 1484 mm x 1032 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9780571218004 | Paperback | $20.01 | -- | The Book Depository |
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Hear the bleak ballad of Willie Dunne
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry Faber £12.99, pp304 Like the rest of his generation, the hero of Sebastian Barry's fourth novel was born at the wrong time, in the 'dying days of the century', which made him just old enough to enlist at the outbrea ... (read full critics)