{"product_id":"days-without-end-paperback","title":"Days Without End - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSebastian Barry\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eCOSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER\u003cbr\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A true leftfield wonder: \u003ci\u003eDays Without End\u003c\/i\u003e is a violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making.\" --Kazuo Ishiguro, Booker Prize-winning author\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the two-time Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barry, \"a master storyteller\" (\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) and author of \u003ci\u003eOld God's Time\u003c\/i\u003e, a powerful chronicle of duty and family set against the American Indian and Civil Wars \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Thomas McNulty, aged barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine in Ireland, signs up for the U.S. Army in the 1850s. 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. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, the men find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they see and are complicit in. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eDays Without End\u003c\/i\u003e is a fresh and haunting portrait of the most fateful years in American history and is a novel never to be forgotten.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eSebastian Barry \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ehas won the Costa Novel Award for \u003ci\u003eDays Without End\u003c\/i\u003e and the Costa Book Award for \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Scripture\u003c\/i\u003e. Barry has also won the Hughes \u0026amp; Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award and the Walter Scott Prize. His work has twice been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. He is the author of six previous novels and lives in Ireland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.5 x 4.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 12, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47454668161202,"sku":"9780143111405","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/855045068d9df83ca0093e0447394404.webp?v=1778857241","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/days-without-end-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}