![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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