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I have been mulling this enjoyable read over since finishing it and wondering where to “place” it. It is a first person narrative, written in a punchy colloquial style that sets it apart from other historical fiction about the US that I have read recently. It is not tricksy (along the lines of Phillip Meyer’s The Son), but has a more straightforward story (more like Lonesome Dove). However, although the language is colloquial, it is precise, well chosen and full of unusual images, whilst being believable direct.
Having the main character as an Irish immigrant, continues to create a depth to the writing (an ability for the character to reflect upon his experience) that would not otherwise exist and also to place the horrors of creating the American West in the nineteenth century in the context of the poverty from which immigrants were fleeing. ( )
1 CarltonC | Jun 7, 2017 |
The narrator is Thomas McNulty, a poor young emigre who has fled the potato famine in Ireland, where his entire family perished. He arrives in America and meets John Cole, a displaced boy from New England. They strike out together to survive in the country. They get work as performers in minstrel shows where Thomas, who is slight, performs as a women. After a time they enlist in the army in the West and participate in several bloody engagements with Indians and experience the harsh conditions of the West. Thomas and John have a romantic and sexual relationship. During one raid they capture a young Indian girl who they name Winona. With Winona they leave the army and return to Michigan where they perform again on stage, along with Winona now a part of their act.
The Civil War breaks out and both men join the federal army where they are in many battles and are ultimately captured in Tennessee and transported to the notorious Andersonville prison whose horrendous conditions they barely survive. After release they return to Michigan and rejoin Winona until they hear from Lige Magan, a former fellow soldier from the frontier days and Civil War times. Lige wants them to join him on his father's farm in Tennessee and they, along with Winona travel there. Tennessee is a violent country in the aftermath of the war and they successfully fight off marauders and establish a household with Lige and his black cohorts.
Starling Carlton, a fellow soldier from there western experience, appears on the farm to retrieve Winona to return her to her Indian father. The Sioux chief had captured the family of their former commander, Major Neale, and, after killing Neale's wife and one daughter, is offering to exchange the other daughter for Winona. Cole has been injured in the firefight on the farm so McNulty takes out after Carlton and Winona. He meets with Neale where he learns that Winona has been returned to the Sioux chief. McNulty is asked to reenlist for a short time to go on an expedition to the Indian village where the tribe has located. Neale, once his daughter was returned, had promised the Indians a peace treaty, but orders his men to slaughter the entire village. In the ensuing blood bath McNulty is able to save Winona, but Carlton spots them and says he will kill Winona. McNulty kills Carlton first and, after returning to the fort, is worried that he will be named as Carlton's killer. He dresses as a woman and in this disguise, he and Winona return to the farm in Tennessee. McNulty realizes that he is actually a women in mind and spirit and begins to dress exclusively as a female. He, Cole and Winona have become a family.
Corporal Poulson from the western fort appears at the farm on a mission to capture deserters, one of whom was said to be McNulty. McNulty had been promised discharge by Neale, but in the chaos after the raid this had been overlooked. Poulson identifies McNulty despite his appearance as a woman and takes him into custody for return to the fort. At the court martial Neale comes to McNulty's defense, but he is identified as the killer of Carlton and sentenced to execution. At the last minute McNulty is reprieved as it becomes known that Carlton intended to kill Winona and McNulty was only acting in her defense. They return to the farm in Tennessee where they resume family ties.
Told from the perspective of the harsh conditions of the Indian campaign and Civil War soldiering, this is essentially a story of the loss of family and the reforming of a surrogate family. Thomas and John are committed to each other in a loving relationship and Winona joins that family. Throughout the struggles to survive in the hostility of the Western experiences with Native Americans and throughout the horrors of the Civil War the bonds between the pair persist and grow. Winona becomes a true daughter to the couple and their aim to form a permanent and loving relationship is finally realized. ( )
stevesmits | Jun 4, 2017 |
I really, really, REALLY wish people wouldn't give entire plots away with their reviews. I also wish people who don't finish a book wouldn't give it a rating.
I started Days Without End today and added it to my Library. When I did, I happened to look at the reviews and saw that two of my LT friends posted reviews. One liked it a lot and one didn't, but both finished it. Then I glanced at other reviews - I know, dumb move - and saw a two-line "review" by someone who hadn't even finished the book that was all spoiler. Grrrr.
Storeetllr | May 27, 2017 |
Thomas McNulty flees Ireland, as a child, after his parents die and his home country is crippled by famines. He ends up in America and becomes a soldier, at barely seventeen, first in the Indian wars and then as a Union soldier.
This is my first time reading Barry, and I was swept away with his beautiful prose. I have read many books, about the Old West and the Civil War and I was impressed by this Irish author's confident narrative style and fine understanding of this period in American history.
This is no rosy, puff piece, though. It is a tough, rugged, wickedly violent story and the descriptions of McNulty's time as a POW in Andersonville, will have the reader cringing and sobbing.
I will now be on a quest to read more of Barry's work. Great introduction. ( )
5 msf59 | May 16, 2017 |
Days Without End is a fictionalized account of an Irish immigrant's experiences in the Indian Wars and the Civil War that had me thinking of Co. Ayech: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War because it's written in the same folksy narrative style. In it, Thomas McNulty recounts a hard life, first as a child in the Irish famine and then as a young immigrant struggling to survive in mid-nineteenth century America. McNulty also tells the story of his lifelong bond with fellow soldier John Cole and the way they put together a makeshift family. This is gorgeously written, both tender and horrific, from beginning to end. ( )
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