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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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Barry is an artist of the highest order. (Claire Kilroy Guardian, Book of the Week)
'Both fascinating and moving, The Temporary Gentleman shows Sebastian Barry to be one of our finest novelists - daring, accommodating and humane.' (John Banville)
Told in Barry's flawless prose, it's a book that leaves the reader bruised long after the final page has been, regretfully, turned. (John Harding Daily Mail)
Engrossing ... memorable ... a notable addition to Barry's ongoing chronicle of lives hitherto untold. (John Boland Irish Independent)
Few contemporary novelists are better equipped to unravel a long and complex life with insight and compassion. (Max Davidson Mail on Sunday)
The story sings with strong-pulsed poetry. (Sheena Joughin Sunday Telegraph)
Arguably our greatest living novelist. (Irish Times)
'These lives are re-imagined in language of surpassing beauty.' (New York Times)
'He writes like an angel.' (James Naughtie Sunday Telegraph)
'Barry's greatness isn't just that he's a fine writer and a deeply political writer. His greatness is he does it all simultaneously: he tells a desolating story and demolishes many myths at the same time. Ireland's lucky to have him.' (Carlo Gebler Financial Times)
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'Both fascinating and moving, The Temporary Gentleman shows Sebastian Barry to be one of our finest novelists - daring, accommodating and humane.' (John Banville)
Told in Barry's flawless prose, it's a book that leaves the reader bruised long after the final page has been, regretfully, turned. (John Harding Daily Mail)
Engrossing ... memorable ... a notable addition to Barry's ongoing chronicle of lives hitherto untold. (John Boland Irish Independent)
Few contemporary novelists are better equipped to unravel a long and complex life with insight and compassion. (Max Davidson Mail on Sunday)
The story sings with strong-pulsed poetry. (Sheena Joughin Sunday Telegraph)
Arguably our greatest living novelist. (Irish Times)
'These lives are re-imagined in language of surpassing beauty.' (New York Times)
'He writes like an angel.' (James Naughtie Sunday Telegraph)
'Barry's greatness isn't just that he's a fine writer and a deeply political writer. His greatness is he does it all simultaneously: he tells a desolating story and demolishes many myths at the same time. Ireland's lucky to have him.' (Carlo Gebler Financial Times)
The Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry is a stunning return from the prize-winning and best-selling author of The Secret Scripture.
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0571276954
- ISBN 13 9780571276950
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages288
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