Eye In The Door

Barker, Pat

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It is 1918, and Prior is in London working as an intelligence officer. His concern is the enemy within – though a clear definition of who exactly the enemy is proves harder to come by than he might have imagined.

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Publish Date: 01/05/2008
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The masterful second novel in Pat Barker’s classic ‘Regeneration’ trilogy – from the Booker Prize-winning and Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls

WINNER OF THE 1993 GUARDIAN FICTION PRIZE

‘Spellbinding and startlingly original’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Gripping, moving, profoundly intelligent’ Independent on Sunday

‘A new vision of what the First World War did to human beings, male and female, soldiers and civilians’ A. S. Byatt, Daily Telegraph

London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men – pacifists, objectors, homosexuals – conflict with his duties as a soldier, and it is not long before his sense of himself fragments and breaks down. Forced to consult the man who helped him before – army psychiatrist William Rivers – Prior must confront his inability to be the dutiful soldier his superiors wish him to be. The Eye in the Door is a heart-rending study of the contradictions of war and of those forced to live through it.

The Regeneration Trilogy:
Regeneration
The Eye in the Door
The Ghost Road

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Weight 223 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 19 mm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

280

Language

English

Edition

Reprint

Dewey

823.914 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K