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Set in London in 1918, ‘The Eye in the Door’ is an intense and profoundly intelligent examination of the effects of war, continuing the interwoven stories of Dr William Rivers, Billy Prior, and Siegfried Sassoon begun in ‘Regeneration’.
‘The Eye in the Door’ was awarded the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize, while the final volume in the ‘Regeneration’ trilogy, ‘The Ghost Road’, won the Booker Prize in 1995.
Writing in the Sunday Times, Peter Kemp said, ‘In the climate of exhaustion and hysteria amid which the war is wearing to its close, pressures to fall into line become fierce and take ugly forms. At the forefront of her story, Barker places figures especially menaced by this: pacifists, conscientious objectors and homosexuals ... a sequel every bit as unwaveringly intense and intelligent as its predecessor’.
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"An impressive work, illuminating with compassion and insight the toll the war exacted from Britain's combatants and their world... Perhaps the book's greatest achievement is the lucid sense it provides of that maddening and heartbreaking species of absurdity one character calls 'a certain kind of Englishness.'" The New York Times
"Quietly powerful... As haunting as its predecessor, this moving antiwar novel is also a cautionary tale about the price of cultural conformity." Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"There seems to be absolutely no skepticism about this process in Barker's fictional make-up and this perhaps is what gives her work its undeniable integrity... By highlighting the war's persecuted sexual and political dissenters, The Eye In the Door, like all of Barker's work, shows her commitment to the process of reclaiming silenced voices." The Guardian"
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"Quietly powerful... As haunting as its predecessor, this moving antiwar novel is also a cautionary tale about the price of cultural conformity." Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"There seems to be absolutely no skepticism about this process in Barker's fictional make-up and this perhaps is what gives her work its undeniable integrity... By highlighting the war's persecuted sexual and political dissenters, The Eye In the Door, like all of Barker's work, shows her commitment to the process of reclaiming silenced voices." The Guardian"
'Every bit as waveringly intense and intelligent as its predecessor.' (The Sunday Times)
'Gripping, moving, profoundly intelligent ... bursting with energy and darkly funny.' (The Independent on Sunday)
'Startlingly original ... spellbinding.' (The Sunday Telegraph)
'Gripping, moving, profoundly intelligent ... bursting with energy and darkly funny.' (The Independent on Sunday)
'Startlingly original ... spellbinding.' (The Sunday Telegraph)
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- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0140168788
- ISBN 13 9780140168785
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