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The temporary gentleman / Sebastian Barry.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Faber & Faber, 2015.Description: 310 pages; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780571276998 (pbk.) :
DDC classification:
  • 823.92
Summary: 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.
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Loanable Gonzaga College S.J. Adult Fiction B (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 012214

Originally published: 2014.

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.

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