![]() 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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