Survival Becomes a Lyrical Journey towards Belonging
The Civil War backdrop gives the story scale, but the intimate search for belonging gives it force. Readers drawn to Sebastian Barry’s lyricism should find survival framed not as escape, but as the beginning of another reckoning with memory and home.
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Survival Becomes a Lyrical Journey towards Belonging
The Civil War backdrop gives the story scale, but the intimate search for belonging gives it force. Readers drawn to Sebastian Barry’s lyricism should find survival framed not as escape, but as the beginning of another reckoning with memory and home.
- Book Synopsis
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For fans of All the Pretty Horses and West, an immersive and unforgettable novel about one man's life in the aftermath of the American Civil War.
‘I knew as I made my way home that there was no home. All the old things … were gone forever.’
Against this rapidly shifting landscape, Tennyson Bouguereau - freed man, devoted brother, nascent singer, conflicted soldier and wanted man - journeys to find meaning and belonging. From the relative safety of home in Tennessee with his sister Rosalee, he is offered the possibility of a whole new life in Nashville, until a surprising trip to Victorian England changes everything.
Exquisitely rendered, and with a rich cast of characters, The Newer World is a lyrical, visceral novel about what it is to survive, and what might be lost along the way.
Ideal for readers who:
- Warm to post-Civil War historical fiction about freedom, music and survival.
- Follow lyrical journeys from Tennessee to Nashville and Victorian England.
- Are curious about characters searching for home after the old world has vanished.
- Trust richly rendered novels about belonging, loss and what freedom costs.
- About The Author
- Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. The 2018-21 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, A Long Long Way (2005) and the top ten bestseller The Secret Scripture (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.
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- ISBN
- 9780571378456
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, (03 September 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 153 mm
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