Pat Barker
1) Toby's room
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English
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A portrait of an upper-class family torn by World War I centers on an anguished sister whose beloved brother goes missing in action, in an epic tale that explores the experiences of the family members and the working-class people who support them.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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A feminist retelling of The Iliad. Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war--including the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean; it does not come, because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam lies unburied and desecrated, and so the victors remain in suspension, camped in the shadows of the city they destroyed as the coalition that held them together begins...
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Regeneration trilogy (Pat Barker) volume 1
Publisher
Plume Book
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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When Dr. William Rivers treats a patient at a mental hospital who has spoken out against World War I, the relationship that develops between them makes them debate the logic of their respective positions. Thus the doctor questions the sanity of the war and his duty - to return his patients to it.
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a monumental new masterpiece, set in the midst of literature's most famous war. Pat Barker turns her attention to the timeless legend of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War. The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, who continue to wage bloody war over a stolen...
5) Life class
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Life class novels (Pat Barker) volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
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Regeneration trilogy (Pat Barker) volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Books USA
Pub. Date
1995, c1993
Language
English
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Regeneration trilogy (Pat Barker) volume 3
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The final book in the Regeneration Trilogy and winner of the 1995 Booker Prize. The Ghost Road is the culminating masterpiece of Pat Barker's towering World War I fiction trilogy. The time of the novel is the closing months of the most senselessly savage of modern conflicts. In France, millions of men engaged in brutal trench warfare are all "ghosts in the making." In England, psychologist William Rivers, with severe pangs of conscience, treats the...
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Series
Life class novels (Pat Barker) volume 3
Publisher
Doubleday, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A new novel from the Booker Prize winning Pat Barker, author of the Regeneration Trilogy, that unforgettably portrays London during the Blitz (her first portrayal of World War II) and reconfirms her place in the very top rank of British novelists. London, the Blitz, Autumn 1940. As the bombs fall on the blacked-out city, ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals trying to save the lives of injured survivors, working alongside...