The Temporary Gentleman
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"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Viking, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: 310 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780670025879
0670025879
SUBJECTS
United Nations -- Officials and employees -- Fiction.
Irish fiction -- Ghana.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Fiction.
Married people -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Historical fiction
War stories