The temporary gentleman :
a novel /
Sebastian Barry.
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| Summary: | "In this highly anticipated new novel, 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." -- Publisher |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published / Created: |
London :
Faber and Faber,
2014.
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| Notes: | 15A 3503 signed by author. Physical description: 270 pages ; 24 cm. more |
| ISBN: | 9780571276967 0571276962 9780571276950 0571276954 |
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15A 3503 |
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16A 150 |
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