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The temporary gentleman
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- Book Synopsis
- **THE NEWER WORLD - THE UNFORGETTABLE NEW NOVEL FROM SEBASTIAN BARRY - IS AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW** FROM THE TWICE-WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Heartbreaking.' Observer 'Engrossing.' Irish Independent Jack McNulty, a former UN observer, has worked around the world and seen extraordinary things, but as he contemplates his return to Ireland after many years in Ghana, his memories are dominated by his tumultuous marriage to Mai Kirwan. A great beauty with a vivid mind, Mai was also an elusive and troubled soul who gradually slipped from his grasp.
- About The Author
- Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. The 2018-21 Laureate for Irish Fiction, his novels have twice won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Independent Booksellers Award and the Walter Scott Prize. He had two consecutive novels shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, A Long Long Way (2005) and the top ten bestseller The Secret Scripture (2008), and has also won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He lives in County Wicklow.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780571276998
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, (07 May 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 310
- Weight
- 275 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 197 x 130 x 20 mm
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