Days Without End (Thorndike Press Large Print Core) - Hardcover

Barry, Sebastian

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9781410498304: Days Without End (Thorndike Press Large Print Core)

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ISBN 10: 1410498301 ISBN 13: 9781410498304

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2017

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Entering the U.S. army after fleeing the Great Famine in Ireland, 17-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. By the award-winning author of The Secret Scripture. (historical fiction).

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Review:

Pitch-perfect, the outstanding novel of the year so far. (Robert McCrum Observer)

Many fine novels were published this year, but Sebastian Barry's Days Without End (Faber), a gay romance set amid the bloody mayhem of mid-19th century America, was more wrenching and beautiful than anything I've read in a long time.' (Aravind Adiga Guardian Books of the Year)

A book about cruel times, for cruel times. And tender enough to swell your throat ... Not since Peter Carey's Ned Kelly has a narrative voice so got inside my head. (Tom Sutcliffe BBC Radio 4)

The novel comes close to being a modern masterpiece. Written in a style that is as delicate and economical as a spider's web, it builds to a climax that is as brutally effective as a punch to the gut ... The Secret Scripture and A Long Long Way were shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and there is every reason to think that this novel could do just as well next year. It could even go a stage farther. It really is that good. (Robert Douglas-Fairhurst The Times)

Days Without End is a work of staggering openness; its startlingly beautiful sentences are so capacious that they are hard to leave behind, its narrative so propulsive that you must move on. In its pages, Barry conjures a world in miniature, inward, quiet, sacred; and a world of spaces and borders so distant they can barely be imagined. (Alex Clark Guardian)

Book Description:

Sebastian Barry returns with a sensational new novel set in mid-19th Century America

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