Sebastian Barry: The Temporary Gentleman [2014] hardback Condition:Very Good novelist Kurt Vonnegut who wrote

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Sebastian Barry: The Temporary Gentleman [2014] hardback Condition:Very Good novelist Kurt Vonnegut who wroteThis is a stunning return from the prize winning and best selling author of The Secret Scripture. 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