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Annie Dunne

Name: Annie Dunne
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Author: Sebastian Barry
ISBN: 9780142002872

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Published on Apr 29, 2003 | 256 Pages

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“Annie’s passionate observations and shifting moods-rendered in dense prose that’s close to poetry-fuel this fine novel.”—The New York Times Book Review

Sebastian Barry’s latest novel, Days Without End, is now available.

It is 1959 in Wicklow, Ireland, and Annie and her cousin Sarah are living and working together to keep Sarah’s small farm running. Suddenly, Annie’s young niece and nephew are left in their care.

Unprepared for the chaos that the two children inevitably bring, but nervously excited nonetheless, Annie finds the interruption of her normal life and her last chance at happiness complicated further by the attention being paid to Sarah by a local man with his eye on the farm.

A summer of adventure, pain, delight, and, ultimately, epiphany unfolds for both the children and their caretakers in this poignant and exquisitely told story of innocence, loss, and reconciliation.

“Annie’s passionate observations and shifting moods-rendered in dense prose that’s close to poetry-fuel this fine novel.”—The New York Times Book Review

“A subtle but powerful novel of a spinster’s life in the Irish countryside rises to great emotional heights…this is a deliciously poetic book.”—The Washington Post

“Barry has given us a heroine of delicate complexity in a setting of rugged beauty. His flawless use of language and plot hold the reader rapt from beginning to end. —Jeanne Ray, Boston Herald

“Superb…Annie emerges from the novel as one o fthe most memorable women in Irish fiction.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“As a wordsmith, Barry is at times amazing, his descriptions poetic and insightful.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Rarely has the precious interaction between the old and the young been captured in such beauty and tenderness…a remarkable novel.”—The Christian Science Monitor

“Lyrical.”—The Miami Herald

“Barry’s gift for image and metaphor…are equaled here by his eye for descriptive detail.”—Publishers Weekly

Author

Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. The 2018-21 Laureate for Irish Fiction, he is the author of nine novels, five of which have been long- or short-listed for The Booker Prize, most recently Old God’s Time (2023). His work has won numerous awards in Ireland, the UK, and France, including the Costa Book of the Year award, the Walter Scott Prize, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In the U.S., his novels have been recognized by the ALA Carnegie Medal (longlist), the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (shortlist), and the High Plains Book Award (winner). He lives in County Wicklow, Ireland.

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