Regeneration is the first novel in Pat Barker's Booker Prize-winning Regeneration trilogy - a powerfully moving portrait of the deep legacy of human trauma in the First World War.
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.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141030937Number of pages: 352Weight: 245 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 21 mm
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Pat Barker
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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