Toby s Room

Barker, Pat

ISBN 10: 0241144574 / ISBN 13: 9780241144572

Published by Hamish Hamilton (an imprint of Penguin Books), London, 2012

About this Item

First UK edition, hardcover, signed by Barker on the title page, the book has a shallow curve to the covers, mild bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, and minor rubbing with a touch of edge wear to the covers. Overall, a Very Good+ copy in a like, unclipped dust jacket, which has mild bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, and minor rubbing to the covers. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.

Seller Inventory # 211387

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Toby s Room
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton (an imprint of Penguin Books), London
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241144574
• ISBN 13: 9780241144572
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition Thus.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

In Toby's Room, Pat Barker revisits the First World War and the characters introduced in Life Class

When Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed', another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Elinor's world: how exactly did Toby die - and why? Elinor determines to uncover the truth. Only then can she finally close the door to Toby's room. Moving from the Slade School of Art to Queen Mary's Hospital, where surgery and art intersect in the rebuilding of the shattered faces of the wounded, Toby's Room is a riveting drama of identity, damage, intimacy and loss. Toby's Room is Pat Barker's most powerful novel yet.

'Heart-rendering return to the Great War . . . On every level, Toby's Room anatomises a world where extreme emotion shatters the boundaries of identity, behaviour, gender. Through the mask of Apollo bursts an omnipresent Dionysus' Independent

'Once again Barker skilfully moves between past and present, seamlessly weaving fact and fiction into a gripping narrative' Sunday Telegraph

'A gripping and moving exploration of the lasting effects of war' Woman & Home

'A natural storyteller . . . the reader [will be] torn between wanting to linger over the sheer pleasure of the writing and the desire to rush towards the end to discover how it all pans out' Daily Mail

Pat Barker was born in 1943. Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy, comprising Regeneration, which has been filmed, The Eye in the Door, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and The Ghost Road, which won the Booker Prize. The trilogy featured in the Observer's 2012 list of the ten best historical novels. She is also the author of the more recent novels Another World, Border Crossing, Double Vision, Life Class, and Toby's Room. She lives in Durham.

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.