The Regeneration Trilogy: Pat Barker - Softcover

Barker, Pat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 024196914X ISBN 13: 9780241969144

Publisher: Penguin, 2014

Synopsis

The devastating, Booker Prize-winning modern classic of contemporary war fiction from the Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls

'One of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction' Jonathan Coe

'Harrowing, original, delicate and unforgettable' Independent

'A new vision of what the First World War did to human beings, male and female, soldiers and civilians. Constantly surprising and formally superb' A. S. Byatt, Daily Telegraph

1917, Scotland. At Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland, army psychiatrist William Rivers treats shell-shocked soldiers before sending them back to the front. In his care are poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, and Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. . .

Regeneration, The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road follow the stories of these men until the last months of the war. Widely acclaimed and admired, Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy paints with moving detail the far-reaching consequences of a conflict which decimated a generation.

The Regeneration trilogy:
Regeneration
The Eye in the Door
The Ghost Road

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Review:

Harrowing, original, delicate and unforgettable (Independent)

A masterpiece . . . fiction of the highest order (Sunday Express)

A new vision of what the First World War did to human beings, male and female, soldiers and civilians. Constantly surprising and formally superb (A. S. Byatt Daily Telegraph)

One of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction (Jonathan Coe)

One of the most distinguished works of contemporary fiction (Barry Unsworth)

From the Back Cover:

Pat Barker's 'Regeneration Trilogy', – ' Regeneration, The Eye In The Door' and ' The Ghost Road' – interweaving fact and fiction, characters historical and imagined, wry humour and harrowing observation, tells not so much the familiar story of the horror of the trenches, but rather of the psychological damage the Great War inflicted not only on the nation's doomed youth but on that entire generation which also served.

The trilogy has won Pat Barker the 1993 'Guardian Fiction Prize', the 1995 Booker Prize and acclaim as the Booksellers' Association Author of the Year.

Paul McGann, the star of 'The Monocled Mutineer, Withnail and I' and 'The Hanging Gale', and a reader of rare nuance and subtlety, gives a quietly understated performance in keeping with Barker's literary style.

Contains 'Regeneration, The Eye in the Door' and 'The Ghost Road'

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 024196914X
• ISBN 13: 9780241969144
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 912