![]() ![]() An intensely poignant story of two men and the makeshift family they create with a young Sioux girl, Winona, Days Without End is a fresh and haunting portrait of the most fateful years in American history and is a novel never to be forgotten. ![]() When I heard that Days Without End (which was named the 2016 Costa Book of the Year), takes place in nineteenth-century America, I worried he wouldn't be able to bring a different setting to life. Moving from the plains of Wyoming to Tennessee, Sebastian Barry's latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. Irish author Sebastian Barry has written multiple novels about the McNulty clan of Sligo, Ireland, inspired by the lives of his ancestors. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, the men find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they see and are complicit in. With his brother in arms, John Cole, Thomas goes on to fight in the Indian Wars-against the Sioux and the Yurok-and, ultimately, the Civil War. Days Without End A Novel By: Sebastian Barry Narrated by: Aidan Kelly Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins Release date: 01-24-17 Language: English 2,187 ratings Regular price: 24. Thomas McNulty, aged barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine in Ireland, signs up for the U.S. ![]() Time was not something then we thought of as an item that possessed an ending, but something that would go on for ever, all rested and stopped in that moment. ![]() From the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barry, "a master storyteller" (Wall Street Journal), comes a powerful new novel of duty and family set against the American Indian and Civil Wars Twice Booker-shortlisted author Sebastian Barry returns with a sensational new novel set in mid-19th century America, an intensely poignant story of two men and the lives they are dealt. ![]()
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