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Jan 2019
19m 10s

Sebastian Barry on James Joyce's Eveline...

The Guardian
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Forty years after he first discovered it, Sebastian Barry explains why he loves James Joyce’s short story Eveline, then reads it for you, as part of our seasonal series of short stories selected by leading novelists 
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