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Also by Sebastian Barry:

The Newer World, September 2026
Hardcover / e-Book
Old God's Time, April 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
A Thousand Moons, April 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
A Thousand Moons, May 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
The Temporary Gentleman, May 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
On Canaan's Side, September 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
A Long Long Way, September 2005
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THE TEMPORARY GENTLEMAN
By: Sebastian Barry

Viking Adult
May 2014
On Sale: May 1, 2014
Featuring: Jack McNulty; Mai Kirwan
320 pages
ISBN: 0670025879
EAN: 9780670025879
Kindle: B00G3L0ZVO
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction

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.