by Philip Rafferty | May 3, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction
Days Without End, Sebastian Barry’s Costa Award winning 9th novel, is a visceral and lyrical western that is traditional only in the sense that there are horses and Indians. Barry’s strength is how he uses non-traditional tropes to tell the story of America. Each page...
by Site Owner | Jun 3, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction
The Last Irish Love By Sebastian Barry Viking, $26.95, 310 pages The Temporary Gentleman is an eloquent sequel to Sebastian Barry’s third novel, The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty. Set in the mid-1900s, The Temporary Gentleman tells the story of the tempestuous love...