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A Thousand Moons

By: Sebastian Barry
Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
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Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live.

From the Costa Book of the Year-winning author of Days Without End

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. 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. 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.

“Nobody writes like, nobody takes lyrical risks like, nobody pushes the language, and the heart, and the two together, quite like Sebastian Barry does.” ALI SMITH

PRAISE FOR DAYS WITHOUT END:

“An amazing achievement.” DAVID NICHOLLS

“A violent, superbly lyrical Western offering a sweeping vision of American in the making.” KAZUO ISHIGURO Contemporary Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction
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I found this 2nd novel in the series to be a pail shadow of the first.

Disappointing!

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Beautifully written and superbly narrated. A time in American history I knew nothing about .

Story with a difference

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Gorgeous writing, captivating and exquisitely crafted.
Enjoyable narration, well suited to plot and characters.
Recommended.

Beautiful sequel to 'Days Without End

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There are aspects of the story which are difficult to listen to, given the history of that period. But Sebastian Barry's lyrical prose renders this novel an especial delight to listen to. One of those novels which might have been written specifically to be read aloud.

Sebastian Barry's lyrical prose.

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I really, *really* enjoyed 'Days Without End' (the first novel in this sequence), but this just doesn't hit the mark. The authenticity and originality of the narrative voice of the first book just isn't matched in the sequel, and the characters fail to spring to life. Maybe my expectations were too high precisely because the first was just so wonderful, but without by any means being bad, this is just... underwhelming.

Not of the standard of 'Days Without End'

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