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The Temporary Gentleman

by Sebastian Barry

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A stunning new novel from the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture. Sebastian Barry''s latest novel, A Thousand Moons, is now available.   Irishman Jack McNulty is a “temporary gentleman”—an ... Read more
A stunning new novel from the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture. Sebastian Barry''s latest novel, A Thousand Moons, is now available. 
 
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. Less

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File size8.5 X 5.88 X 1.63 in
Print pages320
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
Publication date June 30, 2015
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780670025879
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Sebastian Barry
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Sebastian Barry (born 5 July 1955) is an Irish novelist, playwright, and poet. He was named Laureate for Irish Fiction 2019–2021. He is noted for his dense literary writing style and is considered o...

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