6/11/2023 0 Comments Days without end barry![]() ![]() Ook verkrijgbaar in het Nederlands: Dagen zonder eind. But narrator Thomas McNulty is a survivor: the potato famine in Ireland, the immigrant fever. Their lives are further enriched and imperilled when a young Indian girl crosses their path, and the possibility of lasting happiness emerges, if only they can survive. D eath lurks around every corner in Irish novelist Sebastian Barry’s new book Days Without End. Having fled terrible hardships they find these days to be vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in. After signing 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. I am thinking of the days without end of my life. I am doing that now as I write these words in Tennessee. You look back at all the endless years when you never had that thought. ![]() ”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. Both an intensely poignant story of two men and the lives they are dealt, and a fresh look at some of the most fateful years in America’s past, DAYS WITHOUT END is a novel never to be forgotten. Moving from the plains of the West to Tennessee, Sebastian Barry’s latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. ![]()
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