Ook verkrijgbaar in het Nederlands: Dagen zonder eind. Days Without End the Irish writer Sebastian Barry’s seventh novel, and the fourth to feature a member of the McNulty clan is a haunting archaeology of youth, when time was not. Their lives are further enriched and imperilled when a young Indian girl crosses their path, and the possibility of lasting happiness emerges, if only they can survive. Having fled terrible hardships they find these days to be vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in. Moving from the plains of the West to Tennessee, Sebastian Barrys latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. Days Without End is published by Faber & Faber (17.99).

The ending where John and Loving become 'John Loving' is a bit of wish fulfillment. 'Days Without End' is a biblical sounding title - and this is the most religious of ONeills plays Ive read so far. After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and, ultimately, the Civil War. Days Without End is pitch-perfect, the outstanding novel of the year so far. PLOT FOR A NOVEL Scene-John Lovings office in the offices of Eliot and Company, New York City-an afternoon in early Spring, 1932. I am thinking of the days without end of my life. I am doing that now as I write these words in Tennessee. You look back at all the endless years when you never had that thought. ”Time was not something then we thought of as an item that possessed an ending, but something that would go on for ever, all rested and stopped in that moment. Both an intensely poignant story of two men and the lives they are dealt, and a fresh look at some of the most fateful years in America’s past, DAYS WITHOUT END is a novel never to be forgotten. Moving from the plains of the West to Tennessee, Sebastian Barry’s latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE 'A true leftfield wonder: Days Without End is a violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making.

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