| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780452276727 | | Publisher: Plume Books | | Publish Date: 11/1/1996 | | Buy.com Sku: 30073455 | | Item#: RR9NDR | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8.25H x 5.5L x 0.75T |
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| | | The Ghost Road is the shattering conclusion of Pat barker's brilliant World War I trilogy. Set in the final months of the war, The Ghost Road focuses on Dr. William Rovers, the compassionate psychiatrist of Regeneration and Lt. Billy Prior, last seen as a domestic intelligence agent in The Eye in the Door. "A triumph of imagination".--Publisher's Weekly.
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In the closing months of World War I, Dr. William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers at Craiglockhart Hospital, only to send them back to the trenches to be slaughtered. Among these men are Billy Pryor, an officer originally from the working class, who returns to the front with his friend, the poet Wilfrid Owen. Meanwhile, Rivers himself becomes ill with influenza during the epidemic and returns in memory to a South Pacific tribe he once studied, seeing connections between those days and the present time, with its senseless battles and meaningless, blind patriotism. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1995.
| PraiseNew York Times Book Review
"While Ms. Barker is meticulously true to both the military and personal aspects of her history, she is never constrained by her sources. REGENERATION (published here in 1991), THE EYE IN THE DOOR (1993) and now THE GHOST ROAD are too imaginatively free-ranging and immediate to seem quite 'historical novels,' too concerned with moral and sexual battles to seem quite 'war novels,' too striking as hybrids of fact and possibility, easy humor and passionate social argument to be classified as anything but the masterwork to date of a singular and ever-evolving novelist who has consistently made up her own rules." - Claudia Roth Pierpont 12/31/1995Times Literary Supplement
"THE GHOST ROAD is a startlingly good novel in its own right. With the other two volumes of the trilogy, it forms one of the richest and most rewarding works of fiction of recent times. Intricately plotted, beautifully written, skillfully assembled, tender, horrifying, and funny, it lives on in the imagination, like the war it so imaginatively and so intelligently explores." - Peter Parker 09/08/1995 Newsweek
"Barker specializes in the sharp detail, the telling observation, the scene so convincing we can't pull back." - David Gates 12/18/1995 |
| Author Bio| Pat Barker | | The author of many novels, Pat Barker was born into the English working class. "As a child I was an omnivorous reader, and at the age of 10 or 11, I realized I wanted to write." She studied at the London School of Economics, taught history and politics, and had a son and a daughter. Taking a writing course with Angela Carter was the impetus she needed to complete her first novel, UNION STREET. Barker has become best known for her trilogy of novels about World War I. |
| Awards |
The Man Booker Prize (1995) |  | won, Fiction | | |
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