| Record Number |
747840 |
| ISBN |
9781445099637 (paperback) |
| Author |
Barry, Sebastian, 1955- author. |
| Title |
The temporary gentleman / Sebastian Barry. |
| Edition |
Large print edition. |
| Publisher/Date |
Oxford ISIS Publishing Ltd., 2015. |
| ©2014 |
| Pagination etc. |
264 pages (large print) ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Isis large print |
| Thorndike Press large print core |
| Contents note |
Standard print edition originally published: London: Faber & Faber, 2014. Standard print edition originally published: London: Faber & Faber, 2014. Formerly CIP. |
| Summary Note |
Jack McNulty is a "temporary gentleman", an Irishman whose commission in the British army in WWII was never permanent. In 1957 he sets out to write his story... He is an ordinary man, but he has seen extraordinary things. He has worked and wandered around the world - as a soldier, an engineer, a UN observer - and has had a strange and tumultuous marriage. Mai Kirwan was a great beauty with a vivid mind, but an elusive and mysterious figure too. Jack married her, but in time she slipped from his grasp. This is a heart-breaking portrait of one man's life... |
| Subject |
Irish -- Ghana -- Fiction |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Fiction |
| Married people -- Fiction |
| Irish fiction |
| Large print books |
| Shelf Location |
LP BARR |
