Days Without End

a novel

259 pages

English language

Published 2016 by Faber & Faber.

ISBN:
978-0-571-27700-1
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OCLC Number:
960425297

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Twice Booker-shortlisted author Sebastian Barry returns with a sensational new novel set in mid-19th century America, an intensely poignant story of two men and the lives they are dealt. 'Time was not something then we thought of as an item that possessed an ending, but something that would go on for ever, all rested and stopped in that moment. Hard to say what I mean by that. You look back at all the endless years when you never had that thought. I am doing that now as I write these words in Tennessee. I am thinking of the days without end of my life. And it is not like that now ... ' Having signed up for the US Army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and, ultimately, the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships …

8 editions

Subjects

  • Soldiers
  • Fiction
  • Historischer Roman
  • History

Places

  • United States