Sebastian Barry - The Temporary Gentleman
Thursday, May 8, 2014 - 7:00pm
In this highly
anticipated new novel, The Temporary Gentleman ($26.95), 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 newest work is the sixth book in his cycle of separate yet interconnected novels that brilliantly reimagine characters from Barry’s own family.
Award-winning author Sebastian Barry’s newest work is the sixth book in his cycle of separate yet interconnected novels that brilliantly reimagine characters from Barry’s own family.
Sebastian Barry has won the Costa Book of the Year Award, the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award and the Walter Scott Prize. His work has twice been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He is the author of five previous novels and lives in Ireland.
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$26.95
ISBN: 9780670025879
Availability: Special Order
Published: Viking - May 1st, 2014
A stunning new novel from the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of "The Secret Scripture"