6/9/2023 0 Comments Days without end review![]() in the enterprise of continuing survival.” As Thomas describes it: “We were two wood-shavings of humanity in a rough world.” This is the start of a friendship and a love affair that lasts a lifetime and that spans stints on the stage, tours of duty in the cavalry, the horrendous brutality and cruelty (on both sides) of the Indian Wars, and the equally brutal American Civil War when often Thomas was fighting against his fellow Irishmen. He’d been “only 12 when I lit out a-wandering.” He bumps – literally – into 13-year-old John Cole, “with the river black eyes and his lean face as sharp as a hunting dog,” also a refugee from society, and the two boys decide to team up “. Raw with little wounds he don’t have time to give to healing.” It is narrated exactly as Thomas would have spoken - one can almost hear the soft Irish accent: “The bugler with his frozen lips sticking to the mouthpiece. ![]() The story is narrated by Thomas McNulty, orphaned in the great famine in Ireland, who arrives in America in about 1949 as a street-wise stow-away with nothing but the clothes he stands up in and an indomitable spirit. ![]() ![]() This remarkable, tender and moving love story spans a time when America was a turbulent, unsettled, violent and unforgiving country, experiencing in a way the painful birth pangs of the great nation it is today. ![]()
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