The Temporary Gentleman A Novel

Praise for The Temporary Gentleman

"One of the best writers in the English language....[Barry's] soul-wrenching narratives and incantatory prose...are powerful canvases of the human spirit."-Marie Arana, The Washington Post

"Both fascinating and moving, and shows Sebastian Barry to be one of our finest novelists, daring, accommodating, and humane."-John Banville, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea

"Barry's prose has a dreamlike quality....The raw elegance of his storytelling has its own beauty."-Booklist

"Pensive, quietly lyrical...a beautifully written story of a love lost."-Kirkus

Praise for Sebastian Barry

"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

"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

"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

"[Barry's] words have a stony allure of the Irish poets and the lyrical pull of an epic storyteller."-The Boston Globe