An edition of The temporary gentleman (2014)

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An edition of The temporary gentleman (2014)

The temporary gentleman

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"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"--

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Language
English
Pages
310

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Subjects

World War, 1939-1945, Man-woman relationships, Historical, Officials and employees, Employees, Married people, Fiction, Literary, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Irish fiction, FICTION, General, Veterans, United Nations, Irish, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / General, FICTION / Historical, Fiction, general

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Ghana
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Cover of: The temporary gentleman
The temporary gentleman
2016, Isis
in English - Large print edition.
Cover of: The temporary gentleman
The temporary gentleman
2015
in English
Cover of: The temporary gentleman
The temporary gentleman
2014, Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
in English - Large Print edition.
Cover of: The temporary gentleman
The temporary gentleman
2014
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6052.A729 T46 2014, PR6052.A729 T47 2014, PR6052.A729T46 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
310 pages ;
Number of pages
310

Edition Identifiers

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OL26649871M
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ISBN 10
0670025879, 0571276962
ISBN 13
9780670025879, 9780571276967
LCCN
2013047831
OCLC/WorldCat
861068405

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL18180406W

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