The Ghost Road
Author(s): Pat Barker
1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is concerned for the men who have been in his care - particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. This book offers an account of the devastating final months of the First World War.
General Information
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- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : 0.196
- : 01 June 2008
- : 26 August 2022
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Pat Barker
- : Paperback
- : 0810
- : English
- : 823.914
- : 288
- : Modern fiction
More About The Product
Shortlisted for Best of the Booker 2008.
An extraordinary tour de force. I'm convinced that the trilogy will win recognition as one of the few real masterpieces of late 20th-century British fiction Jonathan Coe
Pat Barker was born in 1943. Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy, comprising Regeneration (1991), which was made into a film of the same name, The Eye in the Door (1993), which won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and The Ghost Road (1995), which won the Booker Prize, as well as the more recent novels Another World, Border Crossing and Double Vision. She lives in Durham.
