A Long Long Way

Paperback original. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 292, [2]. Card wraps with photographic dustwrapper in French flaps. Precedes the hardbound edition issued in the run-up to the Booker announcement.

Booker Prize paper bookmark laid in.

Author's fifth novel. Shortlisted for the 2005 MAN Booker Prize. Selected for Dublin's 2007 One City One Book 'big read' event. Tells the story of Willie Dunne, a young recruit to the Royal Dublin Fusiliers bunked down in the trenches on the Western Front, while back home powerful forces fester, waiting to erupt with the Easter Rising.

A minor character first encountered in the author's 1995 play The Steward of Christendom, Barry here revives a former bit player for the full authorial treatment, while casting a probing eye on his own family history. "The story grips, shocks and saddens; but most importantly refuses to be forgotten." –The Times (London)