Days Without End

by Sebastian Barry

Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year
Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017
Winner of the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award 2017
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017

'Pitch perfect, the outstanding novel of the Year.' Observer

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 survive.

• ISBN10: 0525427368
• ISBN13: 9780525427360
• Publish Date: 24 January 2017 (first published 18 October 2016)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Imprint: Viking
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 272
• Language: English

Reviews

[rohshey]

Finally finished this vividly imagined, intoxicating tale on querness, violence and atrocious American history. I'm drained, elated, enraptured and sickened to be on the roller coater ride with dancing boys dressed as women to the same boys joining army and brutally killing Indians.

The language is a hearty made-up vernacular worthy of Mark Twain. Stick with it, you'll be glad you did.

And to you Mr. Barry, I beg you to please let me sit and stare at you when you write. Iet me be your slave.