The devastating modern classic of contemporary war fiction from
Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls
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
'Brilliant, intense and subtle' Peter Kemp, Sunday Times 'One of
the strongest and most interesting novelists of her generation'
Guardian 'Unforgettable' Sunday Telegraph 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. The
Regeneration trilogy: Regeneration The Eye in the Door The Ghost
Road
General
Imprint: |
Penguin Books
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Regeneration |
Release date: |
August 2014 |
Authors: |
Pat Barker
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Dimensions: |
181 x 110 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
355 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-241-97076-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-241-97076-8 |
Barcode: |
9780241970768 |
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