Days Without End
Sebastian Barry
Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
Days Without End
by Sebastian Barry
—· 287 p· 2016
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Overview
About
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 c…
Part of a series
Thomas McNulty Series
Vol. I · 1 of 2 volumes
VOL 2
2
II
A Thousand Moons
1 more volumes
Pages
287
Penguin Publishing Group
Linguistic complexity
4/5
Complex
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
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Reader feel
Prose9
Emotional depth9
Narration9
Historical Immersion9
Worldbuilding8
Moral Ambiguity8
Pacing7
Plot twists4
My journey
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