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The Temporary Gentleman

The Temporary Gentleman

Barry, Sebastian

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General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0143127128
ISBN13: 9780143127123
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Apr 28 2015
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
One of the best writers in the English language. . . . [Barry's] soul-wrenching narratives and incantatory prose . . . are powerful canvases of the human spirit. --The Washington Post

A stunning novel from the five-time Booker nominee, the author of Old God's Time and The Newer World

Irishman Jack McNulty is a temporary gentleman--an Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War II was never permanent. Sitting in his lodgings in Accra, Ghana, in 1957, he's writing the story of his life with desperate urgency. He cannot take one step further without examining all the extraordinary events that he has seen. A lifetime of war and world travel--as a soldier in World War II, an engineer, a UN observer--has brought him to this point. But the memory that weighs heaviest on his heart is that of the beautiful Mai Kirwan, and their tempestuous, heartbreaking marriage. Mai was once the great beauty of Sligo, a magnetic yet unstable woman who, after sharing a life with Jack, gradually slipped from his grasp.

Award-winning author Sebastian Barry's The Temporary Gentleman is the sixth book in his cycle of separate yet interconnected novels that brilliantly reimagine characters from Barry's own family.

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