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Original Title:	Annie Dunne
ISBN:	0571216447 (ISBN13: 9780571216444)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Dunne Family

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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. When Annie's nephew and his wife are set to go to London to find work, their two small children, a little boy and his older sister, are brought down to spend the summer with their grand-aunt.

It is a strange chance of happiness for Annie. Against that happiness moves the figure of Billy Kerr, with his ambiguous attentions to Sarah, threatening to drive Annie from her last niche of safety in the world. The world of childish innocence also proves sometimes darkened and puzzling to her, and she struggles to find clear ground, clear light - to preserve her sense of love and place against these subtle forces of disquiet. A summer of adventure, pain, delight and ultimately epiphany unfolds for both the children and their elderly caretakers in this poignant and exquisitely told story of innocence, loss and reconciliation.

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Title	:	Annie Dunne (Dunne Family)
Author	:	Sebastian Barry
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	May 19th 2003 by Faber and Faber (first published January 1st 2002)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Ireland. Historical. Historical Fiction. European Literature. Irish Literature. Literary Fiction

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There is nothing petty about Annie Dunne. She is, to the core of her being, an angry and bitter woman, but one possessed of a poet's sensibilities and a brave and loyal heart. Thank you, Sebastien Barry for creating this wonderful character and for preserving her, along with her rural Wicklow life, for future generations. I hope they will be able to appreciate her worth.P. S. Sebastian Barry revisits Annie Dunne in his more recent novel "On Canaan's Side", which tells the story of Annie's

I expected this book, which was a gift from a friend, to tap the heart strings of my Irish heritage and make them sound lovely notes of appreciation and perhaps nostalgia. For reasons I can't explain, and despite a character with an Irish anger I recognize from relatives (and admittedly sometimes myself), the story didn't grab me. Perhaps the existence of a new and more prosperous Ireland, or the fast evolution in the rural area where I live, made me feel less compelled by the change of dirt

This was the only Sebastian Barry novel I had not read to date, but any devotee of his will be familiar with the families that have formed the basis of his work.Two of Annie Dunne's siblings - Willie and Lily - have also been central characters in Barry's novels, and the Dunne clan is based on a branch of his own family.We meet Annie in late 1950s rural Ireland. She is aged around 60, and living with her cousin Sarah on a farm in County Wicklow. The novel catalogues the events of one summer,

You can tell Sebastian Barry is a poet. Every line in this book is beautiful. This is a quiet tale of an aging Irish woman who lives on her cousin's farm, and during one summer in the 1950's, she takes care of two young children, her great-niece and great-nephew. Though most people would hardly call the events of this summer world-shattering, for Annie Dunne it is a defining experience, and most of it takes place in her own mind. I truly love this author.An example of Barry's prose: "Outside the

Like "The Idea of Perfection" (Kate Grenville) this is a book about ordinary people living out their daily lives. Like that book, it is filled with the most exquisite prose that makes you want to re-read sentences and paragraphs just for the joy of it. The story improves after a slow start but the writing is like a rich Christmas pudding, with taste sensations that stay in the memory and the occasional delicious surprise.

Told in the omniscient first-person voice by Annie Dunne, an elderly spinster living on a farm in County Wicklow, Ireland, with her equally old cousin, Sarah, this is the story of a summer in 1959 when she cares for her grand-niece and grand-nephew, age 6 and 4. The prose is typical Barry, lilting and lyrical, with all the delightful syntax of rural Ireland. I try to read it in my version of an Irish brogue and am captivated by Barrys gentleness and sensitivity, his ability to capture the

On the one hand AD is a convoluted tale set in a specific time and place, briskly told without coyness or shame, circling themes of universal significance involving difficult and rather unpleasant people in difficult and often unpleasant circumstances.On the other hand, the gorgeous writing enfolds the reader in comfort, so that we are not wholly repelled or dismayed but rather drawn in and possibly enchanted by this crabby old woman we have come to love.