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. 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. The novel is concerned for truth and understanding, exposing inhumanity and humanity in the same frame. Probably more so than the historical records would confirm. Moving from the plains of Wyoming to Tennessee, Sebastian Barry's latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. Readers’ questions about Days Without End (Days Without End 1). Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, the men find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they see and are complicit in. Overview edit The novel is narrated by Thomas McNulty, an Irish migr who flees to Canada and then America to escape the Great Famine. Barry’s (The Secret Scripture) latest novel features Irish orphan boy Thomas McNulty, who departs Sligo during the. 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 is the seventh novel by Sebastian Barry and is set during the Indian Wars and American Civil War. Thomas McNulty, aged barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine in Ireland, signs up for the U.S. /rebates/2f97805254273602fDays-End-Novel-Barry-Sebastian-05254273682fplp&. 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
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