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A Thousand Moons

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171 of 171 copies available
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
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 24, 2020
      Barry’s mournful sequel to Days Without End focuses on Winona Cole as she navigates the dangers of Reconstruction-era Tennessee and carries the memory of her dead Lakota family. Surrounded by ex-rebels too disgruntled by the Union victory and abolition to “breathe the air of peace,” Winona has a hard time telling criminals from law enforcement in formerly-Confederate West Tennessee, as rebels regain the right to vote and black men freed from slavery find their newfound rights attacked. After Winona and former slave Tennyson Bouguereau are inexplicably beaten, she thinks back on her warrior mother and wonders what bravery and justice mean to an impoverished, Native woman that the local whites see as “closer to a wolf than a woman.” As Winona rides out with the Freedmen militia to avenge the attacks, she narrowly cheats death, leading her to a spiritual experience that connects her with ancestors. In Winona, who sees both the beauty and the piercing loss of her world, Barry has created a vivid if didactic heroine (“Whitemen in the main just see slaves and Indians. They don’t see the single souls”). This earnest tale will stay with readers.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This sequel to DAYS WITHOUT END, set in post-Civil War Tennessee, is better suited for listening than for reading. Narrator Kyla Garcia breathes life into the musings of Winona, an orphaned Lakota teenager who is being lovingly raised by two men and terrorized by racial threats in their small town. Garcia's unsophisticated drawl for Winona's voice softens her elegant vocabulary and turns of phrase. Winona's adoptive parents, Thomas and John, are voiced with only subtle differences. Winona's erudite protector in town, the lawyer Briscoe, sounds distinctly robust as he attempts to help her discover who attacked an African-American man in her household--and, eventually, who assaulted her. In an era when Native Americans and African-Americans are not protected by law, vengeance is sometimes the only justice. N.M.C. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

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