![]() ![]() 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. Thomas McNulty, aged barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine in Ireland, signs up for the U.S. Barry introduces a narrator who speaks with an intoxicating blend of wit and wide-eyed awe, his unsettlingly lovely prose unspooling with an immigrant’s peculiar lilt and a proud boy’s humor.” - The New York Times Book Reviewįrom 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 ![]() "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 ![]()
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