We have met her already in Days Without End. The first six paragraphs are spellbindingly beautiful. Today is a busy day in the book world with a vast array of amazing books out in Kindle, Hardback, Paperback … She has the memory of her... A jewel. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. From the Costa Book of the Year-winning author of Days Without End*PAPERBACK NOW AVAILABLE TO PREORDER*Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live.Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole.Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, she is educated and loved, forging a life for herself beyond the violence and dispossession of her past. Buy A thousand moons by Sebastian Barry (ISBN: 9780571333394) from Castlegate Books, an independent bookshop in the UK. However, the plot really lets him down and many of the characters are very insubstantially written, so it is difficult to care about anyone, even our... Mr Barry writes absolutely beautifully, with many sentences deserving re-reading because they are perfectly crafted. Brutal, believable and breathtakingly beautiful. A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry, 9780571333394, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Sorry, but I will keep buying his books, in the hope that his exquisite writing will find an interesting plot and credible characters. Praise for A Thousand Moons: “[His characters] may have rolled under the floorboards of history, but in Barry’s capacious, generous imagination, they have a speaking voice. Sunday Telegraph The story is good enough on its own to be an excellent "western" but with melifluous writing added on. The prose is simple and again, accomplished. A Thousand Moons is a sincere and well-written novel starring an intrepid, self-sufficient heroine. A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry. Having finished "Days Without End" I couldn't wait to start reading this sequel. A dazzling new novel about memory and identity set in Paris, Tennessee, in the aftermath of the American Civil War from the Booker Prize-shortlisted authorWinona Cole, an orphaned child of the Lakota Indians, finds herself growing up in an unconventional household on a farm in West Tennessee. About the Author Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. The Vanishing Half: Sunday Times Bestseller, Redhead by the Side of the Road: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020. search results for ... Told in Sebastian Barry's rare and masterly prose, A Thousand Moons is a powerful, moving study of one woman's journey, of her determination to write her own future, and of the enduring human capacity for love. Sorry, but I will keep buying his books, in the hope that his exquisite writing will find an interesting plot and credible characters. A THOUSAND MOONS is set after the Civil War in west Tennessee. The Secret Scripture (2008), and has also won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. The story is told by Winona , a young Native American girl whose entire family has been slaughtered. The first six paragraphs are spellbindingly beautiful. The prose is simple and again, accomplished. Mr Barry writes absolutely beautifully, with many sentences deserving re-reading because they are perfectly crafted. A Thousand Moons, by Sebastian Barry ( hardback) £18.99 The follow up to Barry’s stunning Costa winner Days Without End. But the fragile harmony of her unlikely family br>Unit, in the aftermath of the Civil War, is soon threatened by a further traumatic event, one which winona struggles to confront, let alone understand. You save € 1.69! Mr Barry writes absolutely beautifully, with many sentences deserving re-reading because they are perfectly crafted. Having finished "Days Without End" I couldn't wait to start reading this sequel. I shall reveal nothing of the plot by way of getting others to read this story. Their lives, often of abysmal failure, anguish, and bare survival, become as heroic as in any classical epic.” —Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books Shuggie Bain: Winner of the Booker Prize 2020, Hamnet: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020, © 1996-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. The inner lives of the characters shine with a timeless quality ... Halfway through this novel I was so much under Barry's spell I wanted to read everything he'd ever written. But the fragile harmony of her unlikely family unit, in the aftermath of the Civil War, is soon threatened by a further traumatic event, one which Winona struggles to confront, let alone understand.