The Regeneration Trilogy
1st Edition
Published on 25. April 2013
912 pages
978-0-241-96709-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Booker Prize-winning modern classic of contemporary war fiction from the Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls
Recommended by Richard Osman
'One of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction' Jonathan Coe
'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
Recommended by Richard Osman
'One of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction' Jonathan Coe
'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
Reviews / Votes
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 * Daily Telegraph * One of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction One of the most distinguished works of contemporary fictionMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
1,32 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-241-96709-6 (9780241967096)
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02/2014
Penguin Books Ltd
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Person
Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her late thirties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. She has published sixteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy which includes the Booker Prize-winning The Ghost Road. The Silence of the Girls was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and won an Independent Bookshop Award 2019. The Women of Troy was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. The Voyage Home continues the series.
