Sebastian Barry is a writer and playwright who was born in Dublin in 1955. His plays include Boss Grady's Boys, The Steward of Christendom, Our Lady of Sligo, The Pride of Parnell Street, and Dallas Sweetman. Among his novels are The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty, Annie Dunne, and A Long Long Way, the latter shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His poetry includes The Water-Colourist, Fanny Hawke Goes to the Mainland Forever, and The Pinkening Boy. His accolades include the Irish-America Fund Literary Award, The Christopher Ewart-Biggs Prize, the London Critics Circle Award, The Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, and Costa Awards for Best Novel and Book of the Year. He lives in Wicklow with his wife Ali, and their three children, Merlin, Coral, and Tobias.
"A deeply moving story of courage and fidelity."—J.M. Coetzee,
Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace
"A modern masterpiece."—The Boston Globe
"Barry succeeds admirably in creating complex individuals who find
themselves trapped in a brutal reality."—Los Angeles Times
"Wrenching...[Barry marches] bravely into the darkest, most
dangerous terrain of human nature."—The Christian Science
Monitor
"Nobody writers better about the trenches of the First World War
than Sebastian Barry. In brutally effective prose he lays bare and
celebrates the heroism of the young men whose livers were lost on
the killing fields of France. His great gift is that he makes you
feel he is reporting events that he's witnessed first hand."—Peter
Sheridan, author of Everything Inch of Her
"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 creative a memorable
character, whom he has written, indelibly, back into a history
which continues to haunt us."—Colm Tóibín
"Lyrical...Willie Dunne's voice, like his dilemmas, has the
resonance of authenticity."—Hew Starchan, author of The First World
War
"A Long Long Way is one of those novels that, as you turn it over
in your mind, may just stay with you a long, long time."—The Denver
Post
"A deeply moving story of courage and fidelity."-J.M. Coetzee,
Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace
"A modern masterpiece."-The Boston Globe
"Barry succeeds admirably in creating complex individuals who find
themselves trapped in a brutal reality."-Los Angeles
Times
"Wrenching...[Barry marches] bravely into the darkest, most
dangerous terrain of human nature."-The Christian Science
Monitor
"Nobody writers better about the trenches of the First
World War than Sebastian Barry. In brutally effective prose he lays
bare and celebrates the heroism of the young men whose livers were
lost on the killing fields of France. His great gift is that he
makes you feel he is reporting events that he's witnessed first
hand."-Peter Sheridan, author of Everything Inch of Her
"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 creative a memorable
character, whom he has written, indelibly, back into a history
which continues to haunt us."-Colm Toibin
"Lyrical...Willie Dunne's voice, like his dilemmas, has the
resonance of authenticity."-Hew Starchan, author of The First
World War
"A Long Long Way is one of those novels that, as you turn it
over in your mind, may just stay with you a long, long
time."-The Denver Post
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