The Eye in the Door
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London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men - pacifists, objectors, homosexuals - conflict with his duties as a so...
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London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men - pacifists, objectors, homosexuals - conflict with his duties as a soldier, and it is not long before his sense of himself fragments and breaks down. The masterful second novel in Pat Barker''s classic ''Regeneration'' trilogy - from the Booker Prize-winning and Women''s Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsWINNER OF THE 1993 GUARDIAN FICTION PRIZE''Spellbinding and startlingly original'' Sunday Telegraph''Gripping, moving, profoundly intelligent'' Independent on Sunday''A new vision of what the First World War did to human beings, male and female, soldiers and civilians'' A. S. Byatt, Daily TelegraphLondon, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men - pacifists, objectors, homosexuals - conflict with his duties as a soldier, and it is not long before his sense of himself fragments and breaks down. Forced to consult the man who helped him before - army psychiatrist William Rivers - Prior must confront his inability to be the dutiful soldier his superiors wish him to be. The Eye in the Door is a heart-rending study of the contradictions of war and of those forced to live through it. The Regeneration Trilogy:RegenerationThe Eye in the DoorThe Ghost Road
Detaljer
Forlag
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN
9780141030944
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
320
Udgivelsesdato
01-05-2008
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
1130709
EAN nr.
9780141030944
Varegruppe
Fiction paperback
Højde/Dybde (mm)
128
Bredde (mm)
198
Længde (mm)
19
Vægt (g)
226