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Double Vision

Double Vision

by Pat Barker (Author)

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    International Edition 2004

    $3.60

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    Paperback 2004

    $4.57
Synopsis

Double Vision is Pat Barker's thought-provoking Booker Prize-winning novel of modern warfare. Provocative, intense and deeply moving, Double Vision is a powerful story of one man's quest to find redemption amidst the horror of twenty-first-century war. Returning to Afghanistan after his photographer friend is killed by a sniper, war reporter Stephen Sharkey seeks release from his nightmares in an England seemingly at peace with itself. Questioning man's inhumanity to man both abroad and at home, and whether love really can be the great redeemer, Double Vision is a searing novel of conflict in modern times. "Full of brooding tension. Barker is one of our most significant contemporary novelists." (Daily Telegraph). "Barker writes superbly. The reader is drawn on, from page to page." (Economist). "Barker has a quite extraordinary ability to combine complexity and clarity and to make both seem parts of the same whole." (Sunday Times). "The characters grab hold at the beginning and never loosen their grip. Barker holds us by the sheer beauty of her writing." (Financial Times).

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More Information

Format: International Edition
 Pages: 320
 Edition: First Printing
 Publisher: Penguin
Published: 02 Sep 2004
ISBN 10: 0140270752
ISBN 13: 9780140270754

Media Reviews
A story that is both terrifying and fascinating....Wholly engrossing.
--Neil Gordon, New York Times Book Review
One doesn't often find the caliber of writing displayed in Barker's latest, a compulsively readable novel.
--Joanne Wilinson, Booklist
As briskly taut as a thriller and, at the same time, a deeply thoughtful consideration of how our lives are changed by sweeping historical tragedy and everyday acts of violence...We keep paging rapidly through the novel, even as we pause to admire the trenchant reflections.
--Francine Prose, O Magazine
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.