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The Temporary Gentleman

By: Sebastian Barry
Narrated by: Frank Grimes
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Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never made permanent. In 1957, in his lodgings in Accra, he sets out to write his story. He is an ordinary man, both petty and heroic, but he has seen extraordinary things. He has wandered the world - as a soldier, an engineer, a UN observer - following his childhood ambition to better himself.

©2014 Sebastian Barry (P)2014 W F Howes Ltd
Fiction Historical Fiction United Kingdom Africa

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"Fascinating and Moving, [it] shows Sebastian Barry to be one of our finest novelists – daring, accommodating and humane" (John Banville)
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