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Original Title:	The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty
ISBN:	0140280189 (ISBN13: 9780140280180)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	McNulty Family
Literary Awards:	RSL Encore Award Nominee (1999), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2000)

The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (McNulty Family)

Sebastian Barry

Paperback | Pages: 336 pages

Rating: 3.95 | 1662 Users | 217 Reviews

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Title	:	The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (McNulty Family)
Author	:	Sebastian Barry
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	August 1st 1999 by Penguin Books (first published January 1st 1998)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Ireland. Historical. Historical Fiction. European Literature. Irish Literature. Literary Fiction

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Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the finest book to come out of Europe this year," The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty is acclaimed Irish playwright Sebastian Barry's lyrical tale of a fugitive everyman. For Eneas McNulty, a happy, innocent childhood in County Sligo in the early 1900s gives way to an Ireland wracked by violence and conflict. Unable to find work in the depressed times after World War I, Eneas joins the British-led police force, the Royal Irish Constabulary—a decision that alters the course of his life. Branded a traitor by Irish nationalists and pursued by IRA hitmen, Eneas is forced to flee his homeland, his family, and Viv, the woman he loves. His wandering terminates on the Isle of Dogs, a haven for sailors, where a lifetime of loss is redeemed by a final act of generosity. The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty is the story of a lost man and a compelling saga that illuminates Ireland's complex history.

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I would love to give this book a higher rating based on some of the prose. The writing can be lovely, with moments of description that are well done - but the entire book is bogged down in the author's desire to be poetic. The story is lost in all "those words" as it becomes more about long drawn out paragraphs and no motion to the story and then a sudden burst forward - then back to long, never ending sentences.... A fan of this period in history or of this place may look past all of that,

Sure and it's the voice that does it here, takes you by the hand and worrits you away to lands beyond the sea and a life lived headless and heedless of consequences. That Eneas fellah, he's a great chap, you know, a grand lad, but you cannae deny, if his brains were dynamite he wouldnae be able to blow his own hat off. What's he doing taking a job with the feckin' Royal Irish Constabulary? Would you not know that that was bound to end badly? Sure enough. Sure enough.Aye.

1.5 stars. It pains me to say this about a novel by Sebastian Barry, as he has become one of my "go to" authors over the years. But with this book, I found myself skimming through all the pages and pages of descriptive writing. So much inner turmoil, and so much detailed prose on the sights, sounds, and memories of Eneas McNulty. If words were molasses, then this would be molasses in January. I often skipped ahead to where there was dialogue, and that was enough to tell me the story. What I can

The reader is drawn into the unique thinking of Eneas McNulty with great sympathy throughout this tale of his life in Sligo and his life away from its menacing threat. It is something of a torturous read but rewarding emotionally. To preserve his life, Eneas is drawn far and wide and ends up having a far more varied and accomplished life than the Sligo men who threaten him.

I took this novel away with me because, after reading The Secret Scripture and A Long, Long Way I thought I couldn't go wrong with Sebastian Barry as my companion. Well, I hope I haven't read the best of him, because this one was disappointing. It was beautifully written, as are all Barry's works so far for me, but I just felt this one was a little less interesting and the style was a bit more viscous than his others. The wanderings of Eneas were a little too meandering, and though I didn't

Sebastian Barry is a conjurer, and he conjures up Ireland, the chaos of the Irish question and the impossibility of living an unpolitical life while suspended between the English and the IRA. Into this maelstrom he tosses Eneas McNulty, a quiet man who would like to live a simple life in Sligo, but who finds himself under the sentence of death by the rebel faction. Eneas lives his life in the shadow of this sentence, haunted by his memories and by nostalgic ties to a place he is barred from

Solid boredom. Took about 125 pages to get started and then proceeded to meander here and there and never really got anywhere. It was well-written and extremely uninteresting. Teetering between one and two stars.