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Viking Adult
May 2014
On Sale: May 1, 2014
Featuring: Jack McNulty; Mai Kirwan
320 pages
ISBN: 0670025879
EAN: 9780670025879
Kindle: B00G3L0ZVO
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A stunning new novel from the two-time Man Booker
shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture
In this highly anticipated new novel, 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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