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The Regeneration Trilogy

PARCEL The By Pat Barker

The Regeneration Trilogy


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Summary

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...

The Regeneration Trilogy Summary

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

The Regeneration Trilogy Reviews

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

About

Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her forties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. Encouraged by Carter to continue writing and exploring the lives of working class women, she sent her fiction out to publishers. Thirty-five years later, she has published fifteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy, been made a CBE for services to literature, and won awards including the Guardian Fiction Prize and the UK's highest literary honour, the Booker Prize. She lives in Durham and her latest novel is The Silence of the Girls.

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GOR005770193
9780241969144
024196914X
The Regeneration Trilogy by
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Penguin Books Ltd
2014-02-27
912
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