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See 2 questions about Annie Dunne…. Lists with This Book. Oct 25, Jaline rated it it was amazing Shelves: Oh, Annie — Annie Dunne. How my heart went out to you as you told me your stories — past and present — and how the future held such strong fears for you. Her mother died young and her father did his best to look after his daughters.

He was in charge of all the police forces in Dublin and they lived in Dublin Castle, along with other members of the police force. Two years after Maud died, Matt decided to re-marry and Annie was once more set adrift. They had adventures — a runaway horse, a band of ruffians trying to break in one night, and then there was Billy.

With his smooth talk and charm toward Sara, Annie felt her security was threatened yet again. There is probably a Billy Kerr, or someone like him, in all human affairs. Otherwise all would be well, continually. Sensitive and alive with beauty, fear, anxiety, and love — I would highly recommend this family saga to everyone who enjoys an in-depth character study that explores the heights and depths of a person living a simple life of great complexity.

With thanks and appreciate to Jamie for lending me the use of a computer to write and upload my review. View all 42 comments. Canadian Reader Jaline, your review made me want to trythis one again. Dec 15, I hope that you enjoy it in "Round 2"! Mar 21, Dem rated it it was ok Shelves: Annie Dunne is his second novel and for me his weakest link in the chain of novels. The prose which he is renowned for is not present in this book nor is his characters well developed compared to books like The Secret Scripture or A Long Long Way and this is just one of those reads where little happens and the plot is wanting in many ways.

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The book is a short read at under pages and is set in a small 2. The book is a short read at under pages and is set in a small farmhouse in Co Wicklow in the late s.

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Annie Dunne an unmarried woman in her sixties who lives with her similarly solitary cousin Sarah on the farm. In the summer of , they are asked to care for their grand-niece and grand-nephew whose parents are going to England to seek work. I normally love books set in this time frame in Ireland but this one just didn't work for me as I didn't get a sense of time and place or the characters just seemed felt and the prose not up to Barry's standard.

Perhaps he has me spoilt with all his other great novels. View all 10 comments. Has anyone else noticed? In movies, a character's name alone can define. I submit to you: In the movies, Annies are always: In Field of Dreams , Kevin Costner is devoted to 'Annie', in jeans and flannel shirts, a Berkeley degree, who believes in magic and the first amendment. Tom Hanks will never marry again.

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Except his son find Has anyone else noticed? Except his son finds him 'Annie'.

Father of the Bride. Of course his daughter's name is 'Annie'. And they play a one-on-one game of basketball. Susan Sarandon is 'Annie', who knows all about baseball and literature and gets weak at the greatest soliloquy since all that Hamlet stuff. Goldie Hawn is Joanna Stayton, filthy rich and insufferable, until she meets a carpenter Kurt Russell who rescues her, but she has amnesia.

He renames her 'Annie' and she becomes lovable, funny and, well, all the things she could not be as a 'Joanna'. The heroine Annie is down to earth and genuine, unlike that rich girl. Looks good in a tie and baggy slacks and a hat. Annies always look good in hats. I have a mother and a daughter. If you made a movie about them, you would have to name them 'Annie'.

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I am that lucky. She is old, and hunch-backed she prefers 'bowed' and bitter. Yet I loved her so. There is something in the lilt of the best Irish writers that soothes me. Yes, even a hard case like me. There is no heart so black that it does not love a lullaby. A bad man is made to swear as to the truth near the end of the book.

There are only two books upon which to swear. One is the Bible, the other the collected works of Shakespeare. Which one would you push forward? Annie Dunne will linger. View all 28 comments. Mar 25, Fionnuala added it Shelves: 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. In the novel, Lillie remembers Annie as being often cross, rarely smiling and having a very sharp tongue. A simply wonderful read! Not plot-driven -- young brother and sister spend the summer with two spinster aunts on a small farm in Ireland -- but, oh, the writing is positively lyrical. No doubt this guy is Irish! I carry the bed heat on the surface of my skin and the soft breeze of the night shows a great interest in me, raising the hairs on my ar A simply wonderful read! I carry the bed heat on the surface of my skin and the soft breeze of the night shows a great interest in me, raising the hairs on my arms.

The stones already hot, softened by dawn. The rain deep in the earth seeps further down, and a lovely linen-like dryness afflicts the land. Grass becomes bright and separate, like a wild cloth. You can almost hear the work of the sun on those long, patient things, the buds of the crab-appple tree, the little hinges of the sycamores. How fresh and alive the leaves even, shouting with green, delighting in life. This starts off slowly -- which isn't a criticism -- spinning its tale and characterization and themes as a spider spins a graceful web.

The beautiful, lyrical prose gets better and better as the story goes on. Jul 08, Carla rated it it was amazing. At least one writer out there is willing to explore the heart and mind of someone who is not a contemporary, college-degreed, high-performing, successful but tormented over consumer who travels to Provence and dabbles in serial mating. Jun 27, Stephen Kiernan rated it liked it. 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 roa 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.

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 roads being paved. Smart people have loved this book. I lasted till page You should not read Annie Dunne for action or a complicated plot. Sebastian Barry is a beautiful writer and tells this slice-of-life tale in the most lyrical way.

Annie Dunne and her cousin, Sarah, live on a farm in s Ireland. Day by day, they toil away, trying to understand and adjust to the progress sweeping across Ireland. This daily routine is upended by the arrival of a girl and her brother, the children of Annie's nephew, who will stay with the two older women for the summer while thei You should not read Annie Dunne for action or a complicated plot.

This daily routine is upended by the arrival of a girl and her brother, the children of Annie's nephew, who will stay with the two older women for the summer while their parents look for work. The unsettling attentions to Sarah by a local man also threatens Annie's security. Sebastian Barry succeeds, when so many male writers don't, in creating the voice of an elderly woman.

I'm always impressed when a writer chooses to write about someone completely outside his realm. Annie is feisty and curmudgeonly but her sense of vulnerability shows through that veneer. She is strong but constantly aware of the dangers in her life--from creepy gypsies trying to break into the house, to runaway horses, to a suitor to Sarah who could potentially kick Annie out, leaving her homeless and alone.

That sense of foreboding permeates her daily thoughts. The arrival of the children break the two women out of their rut as they find ways to include them in farm life, as well as entertain them. But then Annie witnesses something disturbing and once more, the darkness descends over her. Let's just say this incident goes above and beyond "playing doctor. But the beauty of Barry's writing truly shines through in this novel. I just have to share a couple of passages: Perhaps it was cheaper bought without the tick.

Clocks for sale, clocks for sale, reduced price, owing to the lack of a tick. They know they are swimming against the tide of progress, but they soldier on anyway. This passage, written about Annie's brother, Willie, who died in WWI, sums up their dilemma perfectly: Jan 10, John Needham rated it it was amazing. I doubt he ever will though. If you want to experience something of what life was like living and eking out a tiny agricultural living in long-ago Simply superb. If you want to experience something of what life was like living and eking out a tiny agricultural living in long-ago s Ireland, read this evocative book.

Annie, her cousin Sarah and the children entrusted to their care for a few weeks are beautifully and so sympathetically drawn. Mr Barry has the ability, as he also showed in The Secret Scripture , to completely inhabit the minds of women, particularly elderly ones, and invite you to join him, and he does so here with sharp insight and great humanity.

View all 4 comments. 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 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. His use of the present tense in the narrative creates a sense of immediacy and intimacy. The life of the characters feels as if it is fifty years earlier than , and it is hard to realize that this is rural Ireland in the midth century.

Sebastian Barry makes us privy to that neverending internal dialogue we all engage in as we go about our daily doings. In superb prose, which brilliantly evokes Irish speech without the annoying misspellings characteristic of attempts to portray dialects, Barry allows us into Annie's rich internal meanderings: A must for lovers of prose. I savored every phrase by this uncommonly gifted artist Jul 29, Teri rated it really liked it Recommends it for: I just finished reading this little gem of a book.

Lovely and touching in many ways. Set in Ireland, the novel is told form the point of view of a ish "spinster" who lives with a cousin on a farm in County Wicklow. Her nephew leaves his children with her, ages 4 and 6, for the summer. But this isn't a book about plot so much as a constant knowing of someone's very honest mind. Annie's descriptions are original and evocative, yet reflecting her personality and character. I chose this book I just finished reading this little gem of a book.

I chose this book to read, bought it used at Amazon, because I have read 2 other novels by Sebastian Barry. I thought "A Long Long Way" should have won the BOoker Prize a few years ago -- it was shortlisted but I thought it was better than the novel that won. She is only gentle bones.

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To think a person is a soul wrapped in this cage of bones. What an arrangement, how can we possibly be protected? There is a sort of tea-drinking silence that country people have perfected over the centuries. They are the tears of an ageing woman without a mate, I must surmise. But whether Billy Kerr could know this is another matter. The clock seems less anxious to seek the future, its tick more content, slower. I think in the end he understood it too, and gained his salvation from that new courage he found, to go naked and unadorned in the next world.

Even great kingdoms—Ireland, England herself—are subject to this law. How could this simple yard in Kelsha be exempt? 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 '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: The moon no doubt will be riding to the south, where it sits above the sloping field. Suddenly, in the byre, Billy will fall asleep, just suddenly there where he stands, his guilt evaporating in slumber, like a human. The calves will curl up on the shitty hay and breathe heavily through their stupid noses like old men with colds. Even the hens will nervously sleep, the night fear o foxes infecting their henny dreams, whatever they might be, I could not say.

And we will dry and settle the children in their beds, in their pyjamas aired by the sun on the fuschsia outside, with the good air of Kelsha in the crisp cotton, and they will sleep. And we will go to our bed, and we will sleep. Which seem like good matters. My bones are grateful where they lie in their wear slings. Another fantastic Sebastian Barry novel.

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