Sebastian Barry has won the Costa Book of the Year Award, the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award and the Walter Scott Prize. His work has twice been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He is the author of five previous novels and lives in Ireland.
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
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