The temporary gentleman
By: Sebastian Barry
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Isis large print
Publisher: Isis
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781445099637
Subjects: Officials and employees; Employees; Fiction; Marriage; Irish fiction; United Nations
Description: 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 ...
Notes: Adult.