{"product_id":"a-thousand-moons-9780571333394","title":"A Thousand Moons","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the Costa Book of the Year-winning author of\u003ci\u003e Days Without End.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEven when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinona 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTold in Sebastian Barry's rare and masterly prose,\u003ci\u003e A Thousand Moons\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9780571333394\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: Main - Re-issue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 14 Sep 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Faber \u0026amp; Faber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 19.8(H)x12.9(L)x1.9(W)266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 266\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eSebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. The current Laureate for Irish Fiction, his novels have twice won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Independent Booksellers Award and the Walter Scott Prize. He had two consecutive novels shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, \u003ci\u003eA Long Long Way\u003c\/i\u003e (2005) and the top ten bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Scripture\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), and has also won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He lives in County Wicklow.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e'A violent, superbly lyrical Western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making [and] the most fascinating line-by-line first person narration I've come across in years.' - Kazuo Ishiguro on \u003ci\u003eDAYS WITHOUT END\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Nobody writes like, nobody takes lyrical risks like, nobody pushes the language, and the heart, and the two together, quite like Sebastian Barry does, so that you come out of whatever he writes like you've been away, in another climate.' - Ali Smith","brand":"Sebastian Barry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48997123326169,"sku":"9780571333394","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/9780571333394.jpg?v=1784734433","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/a-thousand-moons-9780571333394","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}