Days Without End
AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY
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2017
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Main - Re-issue
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-34022-4 (ISBN)
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-34022-4 (ISBN)
After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil War. Having fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in. Then a young Indian girl crosses their path....
ONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES' '25 BEST NOVELS OF THE 21ST CENTURY'
AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year
Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017
Winner of the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award 2017
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017
'Pitch perfect, the outstanding novel of the Year.' Observer
WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR
After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, Irishman Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, fight in the American Frontier 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. But when a young Indian girl crosses their path, Thomas and John must decide on the best way of life for them all in the face of dangerous odds.
ONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES' '25 BEST NOVELS OF THE 21ST CENTURY'
AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year
Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017
Winner of the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award 2017
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017
'Pitch perfect, the outstanding novel of the Year.' Observer
WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR
After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, Irishman Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, fight in the American Frontier 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. But when a young Indian girl crosses their path, Thomas and John must decide on the best way of life for them all in the face of dangerous odds.
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 Novel of the Year, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He also had two consecutive novels, A Long Long Way (2005) and the top ten bestseller The Secret Scripture (2008), shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize. He lives in Wicklow with his wife and three children.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.06.2017 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 279 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| ISBN-10 | 0-571-34022-9 / 0571340229 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-571-34022-4 / 9780571340224 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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