TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barry,Sebastian
TI  - The temporary gentleman
SN  - 0670025879 (hardback)
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Viking
KW  - United Nations
KW  - Officials and employees
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Irish fiction
KW  - Ghana
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Married people
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Veterans
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - War stories
N2  - "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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