BARRY, SEBASTIAN (1955)
BARRY, SEBASTIAN (1955)
Days without end, 2016 (2nd printing)
BARRY, SEBASTIAN (1955)
Days without end
Faber & Faber, London. 2016. First Edition. Second Printing. Hardcover. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. With mot price clipped dustjacket. With endpaper map. 259 pp. 16 x 24 x 2½ cm. 482 gr. ISBN-13 978 0 571 27700 1. After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, 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. Their lives are further enriched and imperilled when a young Indian girl crosses their path, and the possibility of lasting hapiness emerges, if only they can survice. Moving from the plains of Wyoming to Tennessee, Sebastian Barry's latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. An intensely poignant story of two men and the makeshift family they create with a young Sioux girl, Winona, Days Without End is a fresh and haunting portrait of the most fateful years in American history and is a novel never to be forgotten. The wrapper has one very small tear. The book looks unread and has no previous owners marks. Overall a very fine copy.
Booknumber: 21588
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