The temporary gentleman
by Sebastian Barry
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Jack McNulty is a temporary gentleman, an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never permanent. In 1957, sitting in his lodgings in Accra, he urgently sets out to write his story. He feels he cannot take one step further, or even hardly a breath, without looking back at all that has befallen him. He is an ordinary man, both petty and heroic, but he has seen extraordinary things. He has worked and wandered around the world - as a soldier, an engineer, a UN observer - trying to follow his childhood ambition to better himself.
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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, generalPlaces
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The temporary gentleman
2014, Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
in English
- Large Print edition.
1410474623 9781410474629
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Standard print edition originally published: London: Faber & Faber, 2014.
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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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