AUDIOBOOK
About
Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in WWII was never permanent. Sitting in his lodgings in Ghana, in 1957, he's writing the story of his life with desperate urgency. He cannot take one more step without examining all the extraordinary events that he has seen. A lifetime of war and world travel 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 marriage.
Related Subjects
Reviews
"Fascinating and moving, The Temporary Gentleman shows Sebastian Barry to be one of our finest novelists-daring, accommodating, and humane."
John Banville, New York Times bestselling author
"With this complex portrait of a man rooted in his hometown but drawn into a wider warring world, Barry again proves himself a prose artist and a skilled navigator of the rocky shoals of modern morality and Irish heritage."
Publishers Weekly