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Days Without End

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By: Sebastian Barry
Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
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From Sebastian Barry, a two-time finalist for the Man Booker Prize, comes a powerful and unforgettable novel chronicling a young Irish immigrant's army years in the Indian wars and the American Civil War.

Thomas McNulty, having fled the Great Famine in Ireland and now barely 17 years old, signs up for the US Army in the 1850s and with his brother in arms, John Cole, goes to fight in the Indian Wars - against the Sioux and the Yurok - and, ultimately, in the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, they find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they see and are complicit in.

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, 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.

©2017 Sebastian Barry (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Historical Fiction War & Military Literary Fiction Heartfelt Fiction War Civil War Tearjerking Genre Fiction Sagas
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"If an audiobook that is gorgeously written, tells a heart-thumping story, and is performed with flawless taste and authority is a cause for celebration, chill the champagne.... If the setting sounds familiar, the story is not, and you will not soon forget it, thanks to dazzling language and to a supple and powerful performance by [narrator Aidan] Kelly, whose Thomas is somehow both pragmatic and full of wonder." ( AudioFile)

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Beautiful Prose • Compelling Storyline • Excellent Narration • Historical Authenticity • Unique Perspective

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the performance makes this book better. it is perfect. the book is ok, love the writing style, a little less impressed with glossing over, what I am sure, major life decisions and the struggles of coming to terms with that. in 2017 people struggle for years before they can accept who they are, or should have been, and the character in this book treats it like "well, I put my red shirt on today, but I wanted to wear the blue one."

aside from that it's a good story well written and again the performance is great. it's extremely well read.

good book but....

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The writing is lyrical, the performance is superb; but throughout the book, the Lord's name is taken in vain, for no apparent reason. And it soon becomes apparent that the underlying story is about two young men who fall in love and become soldiers together. Something that many readers would have like to have known . . .

Rambling, Graphic, Unholy Story of War

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The language was pure poetry and the performance was excellent. The story was a little too "perfect" with all action leading to the unexpected result for benefit of the protagonist. Real life just does not happen that way.

Strains Credulity

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the story was hard to follow, the narrative boring, and the narration was hard to listen to.

How can America around the civil was be boring?

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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Light and fun, and horribly graphic and heartbreaking all at once. Masterfully blended into a riveting story.

Which character – as performed by Aidan Kelly – was your favorite?

Perfection! I would listen to him read the telephone book, but his brogue added to the Iris turn of phrase.

A Fabulous Tale

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