Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, they find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in. ' Having signed 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. 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. Twice Booker-shortlisted author Sebastian Barry returns with a sensational new novel set in mid-19th century America, an intensely poignant story of two men and the lives they are dealt.
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