THE GHOST ROAD Pat Barker TPB Regeneration Trilogy 3
This is a trade paperback book in very good condition, binding is tight and pages are clean.
The Ghost Road (Regeneration Trilogy , Vol 3)
Synopsis
Central to this novel are two men divided by class and experience, but sharing a mutual respect and empathy.
One is Lieutenant Billy Prior, cured of shell shock by famed psychologist Dr. William Rivers at Craiglockhart War Hospital, and determined to return to the front in France even as the war enters its final ferocious phase in the late summer of 1918.
The other is Dr. Rivers himself, consumed by the medical challenge and moral dilemma of restoring men to health so that they can be sent back to the battlefields and almost certain death.
Billy Prior is a working-class man on the rise, a "temporary gentleman," who inhabits a sexual, social, and moral no-man's-land. His sexual encounters with both women and men are tinged with a cynical fatalism that the war has engendered. Still, he is eager to join a fellow Craiglockhart "graduate," the poet Wilfred Owen, in France in time to participate in the great English offensive, the "one last push" intended to redeem all the shining heroism and senseless slaughter that has gone before..
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
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.
Industry Reviews
"Barker specializes in the sharp detail, the telling observation, the scene so convincing we can't pull back."
Newsweek - David Gates
"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."...Parker
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