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A Thousand Moons

By: Sebastian Barry
Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
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Summary

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.

©2018 Sebastian Barry (P)2020 W. F. Howes Ltd

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“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) 

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A good follow on from Days Without End

I loved Days Without End, it was a phenomenal story and beautifully narrated. I also enjoyed this sequel, but it doesn't have the same raw power that so captivated me as Days Without End. I would not recommend reading A Thousand Moons without reading Days Without End first; there are too many threads from the first book that will be left flapping in the wind otherwise.

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Excellent book

Excellent story, beautifully read. I felt engaged the whole way through. To get the most out of this book you need to read the previous novel first: Days Without End.

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I'm surprised that I didn't get into this

I really loved the first book, but I just couldn't get into this one. I think it's probably a great story, don't let me put you off as many have enjoyed it, but it didn't grip me and consequently I struggled to the end.

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Sequel to Days without end

The story was an anticlimax after the previous book. The story was very slight and the narration, though presumably delivered with an authentic Tennessee drawl, grated at times with the 'she saaaiiid' and 'he saaaiiid'.

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Lyrical and Brutal

This is the follow up to the excellent 'Days Without End' and it has some of the grit and beauty of that novel without, perhaps, the sweeping majesty. I certainly recommend the book and found the perspective of the native Indian narrator to be compelling. I would have just liked more of John and Thomas, although I appreciate that this was Winona's story. I look forward to the next intstalment.

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Not of the standard of 'Days Without End'

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.

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Beautiful sequel to 'Days Without End

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

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Interesting enough....

A continuation of the story begun in Days Without End. The difficulties of being Black, Irish or Indian in the American South after the civil war should have been utterly compelling. Somehow, it fell short of its potential and its predecessor.

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First book better

The narrator was too mature for Winona's voice and the Southern drawl wore on me a bit. It's a decently written well researched story but lacked heart.. for me.

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Wonderful sense of place

What an extraordinary narration....she made the book come to life for me! Enjoyed it immensely

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