Old God's Time By Sebastian Barry
Old God's Time By Sebastian Barry 4 stars.
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Days Without End By Sebastian Barry
Days Without End By Sebastian Barry This was a far different story than I was expecting, with a queer twist not noted on the back cover. A pleasant surprise. Thomas McNulty and John Cole meet when they are very young, both free from a structured home life for their own reasons. The two are brought into the fold of a showman who dresses them as girls to dancw with miners, sonce there are no women around. Thomas takes a liking to dressing as a woman. They become inseparable and when Thomas is seventeen the two are enlisted into the army to help fight the Indian Wars against the Sioux and Yurok tribes. During one of these battles (exterminations) they save a young Sioux girl from being killed and name her Wynona. They bring her up as their own, until they join the union in the Civil War, when they leave her with a friend to fight in it. During the war they get captured and spend a lot of time as prisoners of war. When they are traded for Rebel soldiers they make their way home...