The temporary gentleman
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Word Count
77,500 words, Guess
Page Count
310 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivetemporarygentlem0000barr
- Internet Archivetemporarygentlem0000barr_w3n6
- Internet Archivetemporarygentlem0000barr_z0a9
- ISBN-100670025879
- ISBN-100571276962
and 6 more
- ISBN-139780670025879
- ISBN-139780571276967
- Library of Congress Control Number2013047831
- OCLC Control Number861068405
- Better World Books9780670025879
- Open LibraryOL26649871M
Classifications
- DDC823/.914
- LCCPR6052.A729 T46 2014
- LCCPR6052.A729 T47 2014
and 1 more
- LCCPR6052.A729T46 2014
Description
"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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