Regeneration

Barker, Pat

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‘Regeneration’ begins ‘The Regeneration Trilogy’ and is followed by ‘The Eye in the Door’, winner of the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize, and ‘The Ghost Road’, which won the 1995 Booker Prize.

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Publish Date: 01/05/2008
ISBN: 9780141030937 Category: Tags: ,

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The modern classic of contemporary war fiction from Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls, Regeneration is a powerfully moving portrait of the deep legacy of human trauma in the First World War.

RECOMMENDED BY RICHARD OSMAN

Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, and army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. Rivers’s job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight. Yet the closer he gets to mending his patients’ minds the harder becomes every decision to send them back to the horrors of the front. Pat Barker’s Regeneration is the classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men.

‘Brilliant, intense and subtle’ Peter Kemp, Sunday Times

‘One of the strongest and most interesting novelists of her generation’ Guardian

‘Unforgettable’ Sunday Telegraph

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

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Weight 245 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 21 mm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

251

Language

English

Edition

Reprint

Dewey

823.914 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K