Name: Days Without End
ISBN: 9780571340224

Sebastian Barry

Entering the U.S. army after fleeing the Great Famine in Ireland, seventeen-year-old Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, experience the harrowing realities of the Indian wars and the American Civil War between the Wyoming plains and Tennessee.

Days Without End

désirée

sebastian barry makes it far too easy to overlook his beautiful writing with one of the world’s most boring, dark, dusty stories. there were segments that had my jaw dropping, pen in hand highlighting every word. there were also moments when my attention was lost on a cast of forgettable characters and gross scenery. reluctantly remains one of my favourites from my ib literature course. beautifully poetic.

COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE "A true leftfield wonder: Days Without End is a violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making."--Kazuo Ishiguro, Booker Prize winning author of The Remains of the Day and The Buried Giant 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 Thomas McNulty, aged barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine in Ireland, signs up for the U.S. Army in the 1850s. 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. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, the men find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they see and are complicit in. Moving from the plains of Wyoming to Tennessee, Sebastian Barry's latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. 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.

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Kyle Curry

** spoiler alert **
           Beautiful and visceral. An unflinching depiction of the horrors of both the wars with Native Americans and the Civil War, amidst which love and human altruism still bloom. At times, even laugh out loud funny. Plus, a narrator whom I will carry in my heart for a long time. 

Barry's grasp of the power of individual sentences is virtuosic. In long passages about the ferocity of slaughter in war or the dullness of mundane life, he would sneak in a sentence of poetic feeling that stopped me in my tracks. Yet I never doubted it all came from the mind of our narrator Thomas, a mostly uneducated man. It all magnifies Barry's larger exploration of the masculine and feminine. Our narrator is brave and a coward, duty bound and rebellious, and an indian killing life long soldier who feels most at home when dressed as an elegant lady.

I'm not crying, you are.

Lukas

Después de alistarse con apenas diecisiete años en el ejército de los Estados Unidos en la década de 1850, Thomas McNulty y John Cole, su compañero de armas, luchan en las guerras indias y, posteriormente, en la guerra de Secesión.
Tras huir de terribles penalidades, estos serán para ellos días llenos de vida y asombro, a pesar de los horrores de los que son testigos y cómplices a la vez. Sus existencias cobrarán una mayor plenitud que peligrará cuando una joven india se cruce en su camino y surja la posibilidad de una felicidad duradera... siempre y cuando logren sobrevivir.

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COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE "A true leftfield wonder: Days Without End is a violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making."—Kazuo Ishiguro, Booker Prize winning author of The Remains of the Day and The Buried Giant 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 Thomas McNulty, aged barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine in Ireland, signs up for the U.S. Army in the 1850s. 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. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, the men find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they see and are complicit in. Moving from the plains of Wyoming to Tennessee, Sebastian Barry’s latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. 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.

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WINNER OF 2016 COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Pitch-perfect, the outstanding novel of the year so far.' Robert McCrum, Observer 'More wrenching and beautiful than anything I've read in a long time.' Aravind Adiga, Guardian Books of the Year After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil War. Having both fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in. But when a young Indian girl crosses their path, Thomas and John must decide on the best way of life for them all in the face of dangerous odds.

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*NEW NOVEL A THOUSAND MOONS NOW AVAILABLE* Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017 Winner of the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award 2017 Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017 'Pitch perfect, the outstanding novel of the Year.' Observer After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil War. Having both fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in. Then when a young Indian girl crosses their path, the possibility of lasting happiness seems within reach, if only they can survive.

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Two-time Man Booker Shortlisted Author Costa Award Winner Thomas McNulty, barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine, signs up for the U.S. Army in the 1850s. With his brother in arms, John Cole, Thomas fights in the Indian Wars and, ultimately, the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships, the men find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they see and are complicit in.

Days Without End

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