The Ghost Road: Regeneration
Autor Pat Barkeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 2008
'An extraordinary tour de force. One of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction' Jonathan Coe
'Powerful, deeply moving... A triumph'Sunday Times
'Harrowing, original, unforgettable'Independent
1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care - particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. As Rivers tries to make sense of what, if anything, he has done to help these injured men, Prior and Owen await the final battles in a war that has decimated a generation.The Ghost Roadis a vivid and unforgettable account of the devastating final months of the First World War.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141030951
ISBN-10: 014103095X
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Seria Regeneration
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 014103095X
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Seria Regeneration
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
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,
she
sent
her
fiction
out.
Thirty-five
years
later,
she
has
published
sixteen
novels,
including
her
masterfulRegenerationTrilogy,
been
made
a
CBE
for
services
to
literature,
and
won
the
UK's
highest
literary
honour,
the
Booker
Prize.
Her last novel,The Silence of the Girls, began the story of Briseis, the forgotten woman at the heart of one of the most famous war epics ever told. It was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Costa Novel Award and the Gordon Burn Prize, and won an Independent Bookshop Award 2019.The Women of Troycontinues that story. Pat Barker lives in Durham.
Her last novel,The Silence of the Girls, began the story of Briseis, the forgotten woman at the heart of one of the most famous war epics ever told. It was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Costa Novel Award and the Gordon Burn Prize, and won an Independent Bookshop Award 2019.The Women of Troycontinues that story. Pat Barker lives in Durham.