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Days Without End

by Sebastian Barry · 2016

Literary Fiction · ranked #113 in category

Winner · The Costa Book of the Year, 2016

Thomas McNulty, an Irish immigrant in 1850s America, enlists with the US Army and serves through the Indian Wars and the Civil War — surviving through his love for his fellow soldier John Cole. Barry's National Book Award winner is a novel of extraordinary beauty about violence, tenderness and the survival of love in inhospitable places.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2016 · 2010s
Author
Sebastian Barry
Standing
Essential Read

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