Border Crossing

Border Crossing

by PatBarker (Author)

Synopsis

Border Crossing is Pat Barker's unflinching novel of darkness, evil and society. When Tom Seymour, a child psychologist, plunges into a river to save a young man from drowning, he unwittingly reopens a chapter from his past he'd hoped to forget. For Tom already knows Danny Miller. When Danny was ten Tom helped imprison him for the killing of an old woman. Now out of prison with a new identity, Danny has some questions - questions he thinks only Tom can answer. Reluctantly, Tom is drawn back into Danny's world - a place where the border between good and evil, innocence and guilt is blurred and confused. But when Danny's demands on Tom become extreme, Tom wonders whether he has crossed a line of his own - and in crossing it, can he ever go back? "Brilliantly crafted. Unflinching yet sensitive, this is a dark story expertly told". (Daily Mail). "A tremendous piece of writing, sad and terrifying. It keeps you reading, exhausted and blurry-eyed, until 2am". (Independent on Sunday). "Resolutely unsensational but disquieting ...Barker probes not only the mysteries of 'evil' but society's horrified and incoherent response to it". (Guardian). "Rich, challenging, surprising, breathtaking". (The Times).

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 04 Apr 2002

ISBN 10: 0140270744
ISBN 13: 9780140270747

Media Reviews
It's her canny feel for the psyche's ambiguous meanderings, more than plot twists, that generates most of the thrills . . . This author creates an atmosphere of menace worthy of a Joyce Carol Oates. -Dan Cryer, Newsday
Barker soars to new heights with this harrowing, contemporary study of fate tainted by the stench of evil. -Robert Allen Papinchak, USA Today
Barker creates a sense of menace worth of Ian McEwan . . . Border Crossing is replete with sharp, expressive exchanges, hard poetry, and as many enigmas as implacable truths. -Kerry Field, The Atlantic Monthly
Barker writes with compelling urgency- Border Crossing is to be read in one sitting. -Joan Mellen, The Baltimore Sun
Exhilerating moral exploration, and prose as naked and jolting as an unwrapped live wire. -Richard Eder, The New York Times Book Review
Pat barker understands the dynamics of psychic and shutdown as well as any writer living . . . In Bo
Author Bio
Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her forties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. Encouraged by Carter to continue writing and exploring the lives of working class women, she sent her fiction out to publishers. Thirty-five years later, she has published fifteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy, been made a CBE for services to literature, and won awards including the Guardian Fiction Prize and the UK's highest literary honour, the Booker Prize. She lives in Durham and her new novel, The Silence of the Girls, will be published by Hamish Hamilton in August 2018.