

Anyway Death likes to make a stranger of your face. No one that knew him could have recognised Trooper Watchorn because those famous Dundrearies was gone.

Their faces clean shaved, as if the embalmer sure didn’t like no whiskers showing. All their uniforms brushed down with lamp-oil into a state never seen when they were alive. Like decking out our poor lost troopers for marriage rather than death.

The method of laying out a corpse in Missouri sure took the proverbial cake. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. 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. Moving from the plains of Wyoming to Tennessee, Sebastian Barry’s latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, the men find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they see and are complicit in. With his brother in arms, John Cole, Thomas goes on to fight in the Indian Wars-against the Sioux and the Yurok-and, ultimately, the Civil War. Thomas McNulty, aged barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine in Ireland, signs up for the U.S. "A true leftfield wonder: Days Without End is a violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making."-Kazuo Ishiguro, Booker Prize winning author of The Remains of the Day and The Buried Giantįrom the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barry, “a master storyteller” ( Wall Street Journal), comes a powerful new novel of duty and family set against the American Indian and Civil Wars
