![]() Moving from the plains of the West to Tennessee, Sebastian Barry's latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language.īoth an intensely poignant story of two men and the lives they are dealt, and a fresh look at some of the most fateful years in America's past, Days Without End is a novel never to be forgotten.Ĭonsidered one of Ireland’s finest literary voices, Sebastian Barry has garnered praise as a playwright, poet and novelist having won a host of major prizes and has been twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for his novels A Long Long Way and The Secret Scripture which also won the Costa Book of the Year Award. Their lives are further enriched and imperilled when a young Indian girl crosses their path, and the possibility of lasting happiness emerges, if only they can survive. ![]() All their uniforms brushed down with lamp-oil into a state never seen when they were alive. Like decking out our poor lost troopers for marriage rather than death. Having fled terrible hardships they find these days to be vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in. About this Book Summary Excerpt Chapter One The method of laying out a corpse in Missouri sure took the proverbial cake. ![]() We knew we was just fragments of legend… There is no better feeling.Īfter signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and, ultimately, the Civil War. ![]() Winner of Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017 ![]() Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2016 ![]()
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