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02253aam a2200445 i 4500 001 E8B457DED67A11E3A5A1377EDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20210109010534 008 131216r20142014nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2013047831 020 $a 0670025879 020 $a 9780670025879 040 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-ie--- $a f-gh--- $a e-ie--- 050 00 $a PR6052.A729 $b T47 2014 082 00 $a 823/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Barry, Sebastian, $d 1955- 245 14 $a The temporary gentleman / $c Sebastian Barry. 260 $a New York, New York : $b Viking, $c [2014] 300 $a 310 pages ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a "In this highly anticipated new novel, Irishman Jack McNulty is a "temporary gentleman"--an Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War II was never permanent. Sitting in his lodgings in Accra, Ghana, in 1957, he's writing the story of his life with desperate urgency. He cannot take one step further without examining all the extraordinary events that he has seen. A lifetime of war and world travel--as a soldier in World War II, an engineer, a UN observer--has brought him to this point. But the memory that weighs heaviest on his heart is that of the beautiful Mai Kirwan, and their tempestuous, heartbreaking marriage. Mai was once the great beauty of Sligo, a magnetic yet unstable woman who, after sharing a life with Jack, gradually slipped from his grasp"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Irish $z Ghana $v Fiction. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Veterans $v Fiction. 610 20 $a United Nations $x Officials and employees $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Married people $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Man-woman relationships $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd. 655 7 $a War stories. $2 gsafd. 941 $a 9 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305033233.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240217010551.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20220104014333.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006075408.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20150926025436.0 952 $l VCPD034 $d 20150901011551.0 952 $l ATPB046 $d 20141108104811.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20141004010210.0 952 $l RZPE145 $d 20141003012942.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E8B457DED67A11E3A5A1377EDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search