- military, soldiers, fiction, history
Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year and longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and prestige.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Sebastian Barry
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 287
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audiobooks, Blackstone Audio, Inc., Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780571277018
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First sentence
“The method of laying out a corpse in Missouri sure took the proverbial cake.”
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