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Toby's Room: The Life Class Trilogy, cartea 2

Autor Pat Barker
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 feb 2013
From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author ofThe Silence of the Girls

The second novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - a dark and compelling examination of desire, friendship and the horror of war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human heart

'Heart-rending...Toby's Roomanatomises a world where extreme emotion shatters the boundaries of identity, behaviour, gender'Independent

'Once again Barker skilfully moves between past and present, seamlessly weaving fact and fiction into a gripping narrative'Sunday Telegraph


When Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed', another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Elinor's world: how exactly did Toby die - and why? Elinor determines to uncover the truth. Only then can she finally close the door to Toby's room. Moving from the Slade School of Art to Queen Mary's Hospital, where surgery and art intersect in the rebuilding of the shattered faces of the wounded,Toby's Roomis a riveting drama of identity, damage, intimacy and loss.

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Toby's Room
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ISBN-13: 9780141042206
ISBN-10: 0141042206
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Seria The Life Class Trilogy

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.