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The Temporary Gentleman

Af: Sebastian Barry Engelsk Paperback

The Temporary Gentleman

Af: Sebastian Barry Engelsk Paperback
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OLD GOD''S TIME (MARCH 2023), SEBASTIAN BARRY''S STUNNING NEW NOVEL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW

A stunning return from the prize-winning and best-selling author ofThe Secret Scripture


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. And he has had a strange and tumultuous marriage. Mai Kirwan was a great beauty of Sligo in the 1920s, a vivid mind, but an elusive and mysterious figure too. Jack married her, and shared his life with her, but in time she slipped from his grasp.

A heart-breaking portrait of one man''s life - of his demons and his lost love - The Temporary Gentleman is, ultimately, a novel about Jack''s last bid for freedom, from the savage realities of the past and from himself.

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OLD GOD''S TIME (MARCH 2023), SEBASTIAN BARRY''S STUNNING NEW NOVEL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW

A stunning return from the prize-winning and best-selling author ofThe Secret Scripture


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. And he has had a strange and tumultuous marriage. Mai Kirwan was a great beauty of Sligo in the 1920s, a vivid mind, but an elusive and mysterious figure too. Jack married her, and shared his life with her, but in time she slipped from his grasp.

A heart-breaking portrait of one man''s life - of his demons and his lost love - The Temporary Gentleman is, ultimately, a novel about Jack''s last bid for freedom, from the savage realities of the past and from himself.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 336
ISBN-13: 9780571276998
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0571276997
Kategori: Irland
Udg. Dato: 5 feb 2015
Længde: 22mm
Bredde: 136mm
Højde: 198mm
Forlag: Faber & Faber
Oplagsdato: 5 feb 2015
Forfatter(e): Sebastian Barry
Forfatter(e) Sebastian Barry


Kategori Irland


ISBN-13 9780571276998


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 336


Udgave


Længde 22mm


Bredde 136mm


Højde 198mm


Udg. Dato 5 feb 2015


Oplagsdato 5 feb 2015


Forlag Faber & Faber

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