Days Without End

Informationen zum Autor Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His novels and plays have won the Costa Book of the Year award! the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize! the Irish Book Awards Best Novel! the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He also had two consecutive novels! A Long Long Way (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008)! shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize. He lives in Wicklow with his wife and three children. Klappentext '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 themselves! they find these days to be vivid and alive! despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in. Moving from the plains of Wyoming to Tennessee! Sebastian Barry's latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. 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. Sebastian Barry returns with a sensational new novel set in1850's America Zusammenfassung WINNER OF 2016 COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A violent! superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making [and] the most fascinating line-by-line first person narration I've come across in years.' KAZUO ISHIGURO 'A beautiful! savage! tender! searing work of art. Sentence after perfect sentence it grips and does not let go.' DONAL RYAN 'I am thinking of the days without end of my life...' 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. 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. 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. Moving from the plains of the West to Tennessee! Sebastian Barry's latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. 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. ...

Product details

• Authors: Sebastian Barry
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2016
• EAN: 9780571277018
• ISBN: 978-0-571-27701-8
• No. of pages: 259
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 233 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Irische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.)