The Temporary Gentleman Hardback - 2014

Details

• Title The Temporary Gentleman
• Author Barry, Sebastian
• Binding Hardback
• Edition 1st Edition
• Pages 320
• Language EN
• Publisher Viking Adult, NY
• Date 2014-05-01
• ISBN 9780670025879

Praise for A Long Long Way:

“A deeply moving story of courage and fidelity.”—J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace
 
“Barry succeeds admirably in creating complex individuals who find themselves trapped in a brutal reality.”—Los Angeles Times

Praise for On Canaan's Side:

“Sebastian Barry's handling of voice and cadence is masterly. His fictional universe is filled with life, quiet truth and exquisite intimacy; it is also fully alert to the power and irony of history. In evoking Lilly Bere, he has created a most memorable character.”—Colm Tóibín, author of the Costa Novel Award-winning Brooklyn

“A story of love and loss, as Irish as the white heather and as big-hearted as America itself.”—Helen Simonson, New York Times bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand

“A marvel of empathy and tact.”—Joseph O’Neill, author of the PEN/Faulkner Award winning novel Netherland

Praise for The Secret Scripture

“Prose of often startling beauty.”—Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy

“Language of surpassing beauty….It is like a song, with all the pulse of the Irish language.”—The New York Times

“Luminous and lyrical.”—O, The Oprah Magazine

Praise for The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty:

“A symphony of a novel, and you’ll sing along and wander…into the next century.”—Frank McCourt, author of Angela’s Ashes
 
“[Barry’s] words have a stony allure of the Irish poets and the lyrical pull of an epic storyteller.”—The Boston Globe