The temporary gentleman
By: Sebastian Barry
Published: 2015
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781445099620
Subjects: Fiction; Officials and employees; Irish fiction; Mariage; Employees; United Nations
Description: Jack McNulty is a temporary gentleman, an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never permanent. In 1957, sitting in his lodgings in Accra, he urgently sets out to write his story. He feels he cannot take one step further, or even hardly a breath, without looking back at all that has befallen him. He is an ordinary man, both petty and heroic, but he has seen extraordinary things. He has worked and wandered around the world - as a soldier, an engineer, a UN observer - trying to follow his childhood ambition to better himself.
Notes: Standard print edition originally published: London: Faber & Faber, 2014.