Pat Barker
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| Title | : | The Ghost Road (Regeneration #3) |
| Author | : | Pat Barker |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Plume Printing |
| Pages | : | Pages: 277 pages |
| Published | : | November 1st 1996 by A William Abrahams Book/Plume (first published 1995) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. War. World War I. Literature. European Literature. British Literature |
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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 mental casualties of the war to make them whole enough to fight again. One of these, Billy Prior, risen to the officer class from the working class, both courageous and sardonic, decides to return to France with his fellow officer, poet Wilfred Owen, to fight a war he no longer believes in. Meanwhile, Rivers, enfevered by influenza, returns in memory to his experience studying a South Pacific tribe whose ethos amounted to a culture of death. Across the gulf between his society and theirs, Rivers begins to form connections that cast new light on his--and our--understanding of war.
Combining poetic intensity with gritty realism, blending biting humor with tragic drama, moving toward a denouement as inevitable as it is devastating, "The Ghost Road" both encapsulates history and transcends it. It is a modern masterpiece
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| Original Title: | The Ghost Road |
| ISBN: | 0452276721 (ISBN13: 9780452276727) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Regeneration #3 |
| Characters: | Billy Prior, Dr. William Rivers |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize (1995), Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (1996), Whitbread Award Nominee for Novel (1995), The Best of the Booker Nominee (2008), Αρώνειο Έπαθλο Ενώσεως Σμυρναίων (1995) |
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Ratings: 4.11 From 14899 Users | 530 ReviewsPiece Appertaining To Books The Ghost Road (Regeneration #3)
An incredible finale to an amazing trilogy. This trilogy about the psychological impacts of the Great War is impressive! The Ghost Road and part one: Regeneration were the best. In 'The Eye in the Door' , the character development of Lt. Prior was somewhat 'off'. It was a bit too much to handle. The final installment made up for a lot. The stories of both Prior and Rivers were fascinating. They came together in the end in a powerful and horrifying understanding of the impact of war, and the'Shotfarfet.'So mutters a horribly wounded Craiglockhart patient to his family and fiancée, as Rivers stands helplessly in attendance. ... his speech was incomprehensible. The wound to his lower jaw made it difficult to determine whether this represented a deficit in the power of using language, or whether the failure to communicate was entirely or primarily mechanical. He showed some understanding of speech, however ... He suddenly realizes what the man is saying through his mangled face. (view
I listened to this third book of the trilogy in the Audible format. It is a continuation both as a look at the world war one battlefield but also a look at soldiers who were sent back to great Britain from the battlefield to recover from injuries especially psychological injuries in preparation for sending them back to the war. There continues to be some focus on conscientious objectors and pacifiers and homosexuals who are commonly rejected by English society during the war.I think the ending
How do you review a book that you found average?A book that you suspect will disappear from your memory as soon as you pick up something else to read? My personality goes quite well both with rants about horrid books (Thank you, Coelho, writing a review on The Alchemist was a blast!) and with gushing about books that made me cry and laugh and shiver (yes, Of Human Bondage is still there with me in its entirety, long after closing the book with a sigh of sadness that the 700 page journey is
Last of an excellent trilogy and it does help to have read the previous two books as many of the characters run through them all and there are references back. You could read it as a standalone, but a good deal would be lost, especially the nuance. We reconnect with characters from the previous books. There is very little of Sassoon and Owen is present in a small way; Prior and Rivers take centre stage. The narrative alternates between the two as they experience the last days of the war. We also
Why did I wait so long to finish reading this fantastic WW1 trilogy? This volume won the Booker Prize, and deservedly so. Different from the previous 2 titles, Siegfried Sassoon is not really present in this story, which focuses instead on Dr. Rivers and Billy Prior. The former has succumbed to Spanish influenza and is in a haze where he recalls his days as a missionary on a South Pacific island that venerates death. In his moments of lucidity he wonders about Prior's decision to return to
The Regeneration Trilogy: I read these books in the late '90s, after Ghost Road was first published. I was in love with the British war poets of WWI at the time and this fit right in. I don't remember many details, but these books were great reads. Very athmospheric, accessible and captivating main characters, I suffered with them every step of the way.P.S.: The movie is also very good.
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