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The Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry (Hardcover, 2014)

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Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never permanent. In 1957, sitting in his lodgings in Accra, he urgently sets out to write his story. He feels he cannot take one step further, or even hardly a breath, without looking back at all that has befallen him. He is an ordinary man, both petty and heroic, but he has seen extraordinary things. He has worked and wandered around the world - as a soldier, an engineer, a UN observer - trying to follow his childhood ambition to better himself. And he has had a strange and tumultuous marriage. Mai Kirwan was a great beauty of Sligo in the 1920s, a vivid mind, but an elusive and mysterious figure too. Jack married her, and shared his life with her, but in time she slipped from his grasp. A heartbreaking portrait of one man's life - of his demons and his lost love - The Temporary Gentleman is, ultimately, a novel about Jack's last bid for freedom, from the savage realities of the past and from himself.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Faber & Faber
ISBN-13
9780571276950
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201336410

Product Key Features

Book Title
The Temporary Gentleman
Author
Sebastian Barry
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2014
Number of Pages
288 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
240mm
Item Width
161mm

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Sebastian Barry
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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