Results for "Barry, Sebastian"

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZENamed a Best Book of 2023 by the New Yorker, Washington Post, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews“You should be reading Sebastian Barry. [He] has a special understanding of the human heart.” —The Atlantic“A prose stylist of near-miraculous skill. . . Barry reaches deep into the me... Read More about Old God's Time: A Novel

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZENamed a Best Book of 2023 by the New Yorker, Washington Post, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews“You should be reading Sebastian Barry. [He] has a special understanding of the human heart.” —The Atlantic“A prose stylist of near-miraculous skill. . . Barry reaches deep into the me... Read More about Old God's Time: A Novel

COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNERLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE"A true leftfield wonder: Days Without End is a violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making." —Kazuo Ishiguro, Booker Prize-winning authorFrom the two-time Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barr... Read More about Days Without End: A Novel

Now a major motion picture starring Rooney MaraAn epic story of family, love, and unavoidable tragedy from the two-time Booker Prize finalist and author of Old God's Time Sebastian Barry's novels have been hugely admired by readers and critics, and in 2005 his novel A Long Long Way was shortlisted ... Read More about The Secret Scripture: A Novel

“A brave and moving novel [that] has a tender empathy with the natural world.” —Hermione Lee, The New York Review of BooksFrom the two-time Booker Prize finalist author of Days Without End comes a dazzling companion novel about memory and identity, set in Tennessee in the af... Read More about A Thousand Moons: A Novel

In 1914, Willie Dunne, barely eighteen years old, leaves behind Dublin, his family, and the girl he plans to marry in order to enlist in the Allied forces and face the Germans on the Western Front. Once there, he encounters a horror of violence and gore he could not have imagined and sustains his sp... Read More about A Long, Long Way