Temporary Gentleman

Autor: Barry, Sebastian

Editorial: Faber & Faber

Lenguaje: Inglés Internacional

ISBN13: 9780571276974

Reseña: 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. And he has had a strange and tumultuous marriage. Mai Kirwan was a great beauty of Sligo in the 1920s a vivid mind but an elusive and mysterious figure too. Jack married her and shared his life with her but in time she slipped from his grasp. A heart-breaking portrait of one mans life - of his demons and his lost love - The Temporary Gentleman is ultimately a novel about Jacks last bid for freedom from the savage realities of the past and from himself.