The temporary gentleman
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Publisher:
Viking
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description
"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 hislife 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. Butthe 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"--
Subjects
Subjects
Fiction
Historical fiction
Irish
Irish -- Ghana -- Fiction
Man-woman relationships
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Married people
Married people -- Fiction
Officials and employees
United Nations -- Officials and employees -- Fiction
Veterans
War stories
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Fiction
Historical fiction
Irish
Irish -- Ghana -- Fiction
Man-woman relationships
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Married people
Married people -- Fiction
Officials and employees
United Nations -- Officials and employees -- Fiction
Veterans
War stories
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Fiction
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ISBN:
9780670025879
9781471268236
9781471268236
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Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Married people -- Fiction
United Nations -- Officials and employees -- Fiction
War stories
World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Fiction
Historical fiction
Irish -- Ghana -- Fiction
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Married people -- Fiction
United Nations -- Officials and employees -- Fiction
War stories
World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Fiction
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Man-woman relationships
Married people
Officials and employees
Veterans
World War, 1939-1945
Man-woman relationships
Married people
Officials and employees
Veterans
World War, 1939-1945
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