Life Class - Hardcover

Barker, Pat

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847821154 ISBN 13: 9781847821157

Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

In the spring of 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 watches from afar when a well-known painter catches her eye. After World War I begins, Paul tends to the dying soldiers from the front line as a Belgian Red Cross volunteer, but the longer he remains, the greater the distance between him and home becomes. By the time he returns, Paul must confront not only the overwhelming, perhaps impossible challenge of how to express all that he has seen and experienced, but also the fact that life, and love, will never be the same for him again.

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Review:

Advance Praise for "Life Class":
"This is a story about hopeful ambitions and relationships redirected and reshaped by a climate of catastrophic change....[It] render[s] the horrors of combat with (Barker's trademark) meticulously researched detail and piercing clarity. Secondary characters' experiences likewise amplify into lucid microcosms of the global cataclysm that shadows every individual life....Mature, unsentimental and searching. One of this excellent writer's finest books." --"Kirkus Reviews" (starred)
"With great tenderness and insight, and a daring to forgo simple resolutions, Barker conveys a wartime world turned upside down." --Mark Bostridge, "The Independent"
"As ever with Barker...the writing is breathtaking...sharply written and elegantly constructed." --D. J. Taylor, "The Guardian"
Praise for The Regeneration Trilogy:
"A masterwork...complex and ambitious." --"New York Times Book Review
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"It has been Pat Barker's accomplishment to enlarge the scope of the contemporary English novel." --"The New Yorker
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"A literary achievement...remarkable." --"San Francisco Chronicle
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"Some of the most powerful antiwar writing in modern fiction." --"Boston Globe"

Beautiful and evocative . . . a coming-of-age story that transcends the individual and gestures to the fate of a generation. People Life Class possesses organic power and narrative sweep. . . . Barker conjures up the hellish terrors of the war and its fallout with meticulous precision. Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Here, as in her best fiction, Barker unveils psychologically rich characters. . . and resists the trappings of a neat love story, reminding us once again that in art and life we remain infinitely mysterious. San Francisco Chronicle A book so alive from page to page that it's difficult to put down. Seattle Times"

"Beautiful and evocative . . . a coming-of-age story that transcends the individual and gestures to the fate of a generation." --People"Life Class possesses organic power and narrative sweep. . . . Barker conjures up the hellish terrors of the war and its fallout with meticulous precision." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times"Here, as in her best fiction, Barker unveils psychologically rich characters. . . and resists the trappings of a neat love story, reminding us once again that in art and life we remain infinitely mysterious." --San Francisco Chronicle"A book so alive from page to page that it's difficult to put down." --Seattle Times

About the Author:

Pat Barker is most recently the author of the novels Toby's Room and Life Class, as well as 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; as well as seven other novels. She lives in the north of England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1847821154
• ISBN 13: 9781847821157
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 360