Annie Dunne

Informationen zum Autor Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. The 2018-21 Laureate for Irish Fiction, his novels have twice won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Independent Booksellers Award and the Walter Scott Prize. He had two consecutive novels shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, A Long Long Way (2005) and the top ten bestseller The Secret Scripture (2008), and has also won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He lives in County Wicklow. Klappentext Novel set in rural Ireland in the 1950s. "Unsentimental and exact. Like clear glass." "The Times". Annie Dunne by Sebastian Barry - set in Wicklow, Ireland, in 1950 - is a poignant and exquisitely-told story of innocence, loss and reconciliation. Zusammenfassung Annie Dunne and her cousin Sarah live and work on a small farm in a remote and beautiful part of Wicklow in late 1950s Ireland. All about them the old green roads are being tarred, cars are being purchased, a way of life is about to disappear. Like two old rooks, they hold to their hill in Kelsha, cherishing everything.

Product details

• Authors: Sebastian Barry
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 19.05.2003
• EAN: 9780571216444
• ISBN: 978-0-571-21644-4
• No. of pages: 228
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 197 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Irische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), FICTION / Literary, Childhood; Community; Rural, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary