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Regeneration - Regeneration (Paperback)
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Regeneration - Regeneration (Paperback)

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Paperback 256 Pages / Published: 01/05/2008
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A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection The modern classic of contemporary war fiction - a Man Booker Prize-nominated examination of World War I and its deep legacy of human traumas. 'A brilliant novel. Intense and subtle' Peter Kemp, Sunday Times 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. This is the first novel in Pat Barker's Man Booker Prize-winning Regeneration Trilogy: I: Regeneration II: The Eye in the Door III: The Ghost Road 'A vivid evocation of the agony of the First World War and a multi-layered exploration of all wars. A fine anthem for doomed youth' Time Out 'A novel of tremendous power' Margaret Forster 'Unforgettable' Sunday Telegraph 'One of the strongest and most interesting novelists of her generation' Guardian

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780141030937
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 182 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 16 mm

Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy – climaxing with the Booker Prize-winning The Ghost Road of 1995 – pushed her to front rank of British historical novelists. Brilliantly fusing an almost unparalleled level of veracity with a profound understanding of story and allusion, almost single-handedly Barker elevated the concept of the historical novel to the literary. Subsequently, Barker has rounded on a number of other themes, including the exploration of morality and children in the uncompromising Border Crossing and the exceptional, pan-Second World War narrative cycle of Life Class, Toby’s Room and Noonday.

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“A convincing story of the impact of war.”

A thoughtful, sombre and unafraid novel which explores the mental state of soldiers – and civilians – affected by the First World War. Its chief character is the army psychologist Dr Rivers, who works tirelessly with... More

Paperback edition
28th October 2012
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“Regeneration”

This is a moving story about the side of war that you don't always get told about in other war novels. It follows the lives of several soldiers, including the poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, as they are... More

Paperback edition
14th February 2011
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