![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. From Sebastian Barry, a two-time finalist for the Man Booker Prize, comes a powerful and unforgettable novel chronicling a young Irish immigrants army. 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. 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. ![]() Set in rural Ireland in the late 1950s the novel recounts the life of Annie, who having been made homeless after the death of her sister is forced to move to a farm in County Wicklow. 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. Annie Dunne is a novel written by author and playwright Sebastian Barry.First published by Faber and Faber in 2002 it is currently under reprint from Penguin Books. Thomas McNulty, aged barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine in Ireland, signs up for the U.S. Winner, 2017 Costa Book of the Year Awardįrom 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 ![]()
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