Days Without End
by Sebastian Barry · first published 2016
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Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year and longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. Sebastian Barry's sensational new novel set in mid-19th Century America. 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 sur
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Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami was my favorite of the year. I'd highly recommend it. Days Without End by Sebastian Barry ran a close second, and I'm in the middle of Wolf Hall and quite liking it, too.
on “Ask HN: Favorite fiction books of 2018?” ↗Sebastian Barry is a master. Try Days Without End. Quotes: https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/50666270-days-without-... The criminally unknown Janni Howker borders on poetry in her prose. Try Martin Farrell.
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