'Days Without End is a work of staggering openness its startlingly beautiful sentences are so capacious that they are hard to leave behind, its narrative so propulsive that you must move on. A gorgeous book about love and guilt, and duty to family.'-Book Riot's 'All The Books!' A pleasure for fans of Barry and his McNulty stories.' -Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) Evocative of Cormac McCarthy and Charles Portis, Days Without End is a timeless work of historical fiction.'-Booklist (Starred Review) 'A tour de force of style and atmosphere. 'Powerful and unsettling, an important look at one of history's most regrettable chapters.' -Minneapolis Star Tribune He navigates the terrain as a master of fictional conventions and sweeps us along in a big picaresque arc that is just the right vessel for his thematic necessities.' -David Guterson, author of Snow Falling on Cedars

And he writes like there's no tomorrow-like there are days without end. 'Sebastian Barry had me in no uncertain terms from the first sentence and never let up. 'A true leftfield wonder: Days Without End is a violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making, the most fascinating line-by-line first person narration I've come across in years.'-Kazuo Ishiguro, Booker Prize winning author of The Remains of the Day and The Buried Giant the 'wilderness of furious death' his characters inhabit has a gut-punching credibility.' A mordant vein of comedy runs through the book. Barry's prose can take brilliant turns without sounding implausible coming out of Thomas's mouth. an absorbing story that sets the horrors of history against the consolations of hearth and home.' -Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal Barry has fashioned carries the novel from the staccato chaos of battle to wistful hymns to youth. The rough-hewn yet hypnotic voice that Mr. Barry's frontier saga is a vertiginous pile-up of inhumanity and stolen love: gore-soaked and romantic, murderous and musical.

If you underlined every sentence in Days Without End that has a rustic beauty to it, you'd end up with a mighty stripy book.'-Sarah Begley, Time

Through Barry, the frontiersman has a poet's sense of language. 'Days Without End is suffused with joy and good spirit. But in this country's adolescence he also finds our essential human paradox, our heartbreak: that love and fear are equally ineradicable.'-Katy Simpson Smith, The New York Times Book Review Barry introduces a narrator who speaks with an intoxicating blend of wit and wide-eyed awe, his unsettlingly lovely prose unspooling with an immigrant's peculiar lilt and a proud boy's humor.

Days without end by sebastian barry