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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 โtemporary gentlemanโโan Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War II was never permanent. Sitting in his lodgings in Accra, Ghana, in 1957, heโs 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 travelโas a soldier in World War II, an engineer, a UN observerโhas 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 Barryโs The Temporary Gentleman is the sixth book in his cycle of separate yet interconnected novels that brilliantly reimagine characters from Barryโs own family.
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