Toby's Room: The Life Class Trilogy, cartea 2
Autor Pat Barkeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 feb 2013
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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Specificații
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
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.
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.