Fear flies off and my box of thoughts feels light. But I am as peaceful and easy now as I ever been. We been through many slaughters, John Cole and me. “How come we got to have Winona? I don’t know. “My heart is full of Winona but also John Cole,” Thomas writes. Your Plus plan is 7.95 a month after 30 day trial. You will get an email reminder before your trial ends. Unlike the doomed couple of Brokeback Mountain, this pair make a happy, stable family. Days Without End A Novel By: Sebastian Barry Narrated by: Aidan Kelly Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins 4.1 (2,187 ratings) Try for 0.00 Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks, and podcasts. After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil.

Between wars, the couple take in Winona, a Sioux girl who becomes a daughter to them and redoubles their joy. He stays by John’s side throughout Army campaigns across the South and West, and dons dresses in peacetime. There, Thomas comes to two understandings: that his handsome best friend is the love of his life, and that he enjoys dressing as a woman. They meet as ragamuffin boys scrounging for food in a frontier town, “two wood-shavings of humanity in a rough world,” and eventually find work in a saloon putting on dresses and dancing with lonely cowboys for 50¢ a night. And yet, in spite of those horrors, Days Without End is suffused with joy and good spirit.Ī hefty chunk of Thomas’ pleasure in life comes from comrade-in-arms John Cole. He has witnessed enough tragedy to darken 10 lifetimes. But narrator Thomas McNulty is a survivor: the potato famine in Ireland, the immigrant fever sheds and mass graves in Canada, the Indian Wars, the Civil War and the random violence of the postbellum South. To see the complete list of this books read-alikes, you need to be a member. We have 9 read-alikes for Days Without End, but non-members are limited to two results. Death lurks around every corner in Irish novelist Sebastian Barry’s new book Days Without End. About this book More by this author Poet Ocean Vuongs debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling.

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