Life Class - Hardcover

Barker, Pat

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ISBN 10: 0241142970 ISBN 13: 9780241142974

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 2007

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Spring, 1914. A group of students at the Slade School of Art have gathered for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant is easily distracted by an intriguing fellow student, Elinor Brooke, but when Kit Neville ― himself not long out of the Slade but already a well-known painter ― makes it clear that he, too, is attracted to Elinor, Paul withdraws into a passionate affair with an artist’s model. As spring turns to summer, Paul and Elinor each reach a crisis in their relationships until finally, in the first few days of war, they turn to each other.

Paul’s new life as a volunteer for the Belgian Red Cross is a world away from his days at the Slade. The longer he remains in Ypres, the greater the distance between himself and home becomes, and by the time he returns, Paul must confront the fact that life, and love, will never be the same again.

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Review:

One of the strongest and most interesting novelists of her generation (Guardian)

She is daring, wise and a pleasure to read (A.S. Byatt Daily Telegraph)

A brilliant stylist . . . Barker delves unflinchingly into the enduring mysteries of human motivation (Sunday Telegraph)

About the Author:

Pat Barker is the author of Union Street, Blow your House Down, The Century's Daughter, The Man Who Wasn't There, the Regeneration Trilogy (Regeneration, The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road), Another World, Border Crossing, Double Vision, and the Life Class Trilogy (Life Class, Toby's Room and Noonday). Pat Barker lives in Durham.

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