The Temporary Gentleman

The Temporary Gentleman

Sebastian Barry

InläsareFrank Grimes
Betyg4.3
Längd7 tim 21 min
Språken
FörlagW. F. Howes Ltd
ISBN9781471262531

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.

The Temporary Gentleman is a heart-breaking portrait of one man's life – and his last bid for freedom, from the savage realities of the past and from himself.