Scan barcode
A review by ari_ceele
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
5.0
While the storyline may be fairly typical for a novel set in WWI, Sebastian Barry's use of language makes the horrors of war -especially of the trench war- come alive in a manner that I had yet to see.
Barry doesn't pull any punches. His Dantesque description of the battlefields blend together with Willie Dunne's sense of not belonging, the sorrow of no longer knowing the country he set out to fight for in the first place, and the painful knowledge that life outside the trenches has moved forward while his has been frozen in the midst of war.
It's been a long time since a novel made me cry, but this one definitely did the trick.
Barry doesn't pull any punches. His Dantesque description of the battlefields blend together with Willie Dunne's sense of not belonging, the sorrow of no longer knowing the country he set out to fight for in the first place, and the painful knowledge that life outside the trenches has moved forward while his has been frozen in the midst of war.
It's been a long time since a novel made me cry, but this one definitely did the trick.