Border Crossing - Softcover

Barker, Pat

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1,966 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312420196 ISBN 13: 9780312420192

Publisher: Picador USA, 2002

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After rescuing a man from a near-drowning in the river Tyne, child psychologist Tom Seymour recognizes the man as Danny Miller, a murderer at whose trial he had once testified and whose guilt he now doubts. By the author of Another World. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

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Review:

"It's her canny feel for the psyche's ambiguous meanderings, more than plot twists, that generates most of the thrills....This author creates an atmosphere of menace worthy of a Joyce Carol Oates."--Dan Cryer, Newsday

"Barker soars to new heights with this harrowing, contemporary study of fate tainted by the stench of evil."--Robert Allen Papinchak, USA Today

"Barker creates a sense of menace worth of Ian McEwan...Border Crossing is replete with sharp, expressive exchanges, hard poetry, and as many enigmas as implacable truths."--Kerry Field, The Atlantic Monthly

"Barker writes with compelling urgency--Border Crossing is to be read in one sitting."--Joan Mellen, The Baltimore Sun

"Exhilarating moral exploration, and prose as naked and jolting as an unwrapped live wire."--Richard Eder, The New York Times Book Review

"Pat barker understands the dynamics of psychic and shutdown as well as any writer living....In Border Crossing Barker brings post-traumatic stress disorder from the literal to the domestic battlefield."--Sven Birkerts, Esquire

"Barker has constructed in Danny a classic borderline personality disorder; the result is both chilling and psychologically persuasive...as frightening as it is wise."--Gail Caldwell, The Boston Sunday Globe

About the Author:

Pat Barker is the author of the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy: Regeneration; The Eye in the Door, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize; and The Ghost Road, winner of the Booker Prize. She lives in England.

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