7/4/2023 0 Comments Days without end barryAs he explains it in his punctuation-optional style, “Thank God John Cole was my first friend in America and so in the army too and the last friend for that matter.” The book starts in the early 1850s, as Thomas, just 17, has stumbled into what will become the most important relationship of his life. Later, during the Civil War, he re-enlists and takes the fight to secessionist troops. Armed with a musket and a bayonet, he’s part of a unit that slaughters American Indians. At its heart is Thomas McNulty, an Irishman who has fled his famine-stricken country and joined up with the U.S. “Days Without End” is a story with some tremendously brutal scenes. In turn, the young soldier inflicts his own set of terrors on the world. These and other miseries befall the narrator of Sebastian Barry’s new historical novel. Hunger and heat waves, fever and floods, frostbite and freezing rain.
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